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Feathers and fins, Janet Hunt
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction Alison Ballance Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517273 The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean Neville Peat Penguin Books, $62.00, ISBN 9780143011385 Time was when “non-fiction” meant staid, largely black-and-white books on a…
Tagged with: Alison Ballance, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Janet Hunt, Neville Peat, Penguin Books, Winter 2011
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Aotearoa – the last frontier, Neville Peat
Environmental Histories of New Zealand ed Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019558421X Environmentally and in other ways, New Zealand is a last frontier – the last temperate-climate land on earth to be discovered and colonised…
Tagged with: Eric Pawson, Issue 59, Neville Peat, Oxford University Press, Spring 2002, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Through unfamiliar waters, Chris Maclean
Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark Neville Peat Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877135577 Two centuries ago, sealers and whalers came to New Zealand to hunt marine mammals for their oil and skins. Millions were slaughtered, most of them on…
Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 50, Longacre Press, Neville Peat, October 2001
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Flagship for conservation, Neville Peat
Kapiti Chris Maclean Whitcombe Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 473 06166 X A hilly chip off the old block, Kapiti Island lies alluringly close to the mainland – a Kapiti Coast landmark with a reputation considerably out of proportion to its…
Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 43, Neville Peat, Whitcombe Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
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