Michelle Elvy on Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
Morphing From Exploration to Conservation
Tim Saunders on Home is an Island: A writer’s tribute to the islands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Neville Peat.
To Re-remember and Re-learn
Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.
Earth’s Last Great Wilderness
Neville Peat on Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
An Empty Tent Flapping in the Wind
Kathryn Mitchell 45 South: A journey across southern New Zealand, by Laurence Fearnley with photographs by Arno Gasteiger, (Penguin, 2013), 191 pp., $65.00 Our journey in this book begins at Hilderthorpe, where a large boulder marks an invisible line laid down by map-makers: 45 degrees south, halfway between the equator and the south pole. 45 […]
Happiest When Specimen Hunting
Anne Else The Owl that Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator, by Brian Gill (Awa Press, 2012), 152pp. $35; Flashback: Tales and Treasures of Taranaki, by Andrew Moffat, (Huia Publishers, 2012), 321 pp., NZ$55. In 2013, a museum looks like an increasingly strange idea. Get together various collections of still, silent […]
Packaging the Land
Philippa Jamieson Wild Heart: The Possibility of Wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Mick Abbott and Richard Reeve (Otago University Press) 224 pp. $45; Making Our Place: Exploring Land-use Tensions in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Jacinta Ruru, Janet Stephenson and Mick Abbott, (Otago University Press), 243 pp. $45. Although we are becoming […]
Nature Study Man
Denis Harold Seabird Genius: the Story of L.E. Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the Yellow-eyed Penguin, by Neville Peat (Otago University Press, 2011), 288 pp. $45 The establishment of the albatross colony at Tairoa Head on Otago Peninsula is iconic, but not so the individual largely responsible. Lance Richdale, born just days into the […]