by administrator | Sep 15, 2016 | ENNZ, Vol10 no1
Recent Publication: Neville Peat, Stewart Island: Rakiura National Park (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2015). 72 pp. ISBN 978-1-927322-35-2. NZ$29.95 paperback. This handy guidebook to Stewart Island is written by the author of Stewart Island: The Last Refuge...
by administrator | Sep 15, 2016 | ENNZ, Vol10 no1
Review: Alan F. Mark, Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature Conservation (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2015). 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-927322-04-8. NZ$45.00 paperback. Paul Star A few years ago, when he and I both attended committee meetings of Forest and Bird’s...
by administrator | Sep 15, 2016 | ENNZ, Vol10 no1
Vaughan Wood[1] The production of phormium flax fibre, if we include hand dressing of flax by Maori, was one of New Zealand’s foundation export industries. The record of New Zealand flax exports goes back to at least 1810,[2] while we can extend European interest in...
by administrator | Sep 15, 2016 | ENNZ, Vol10 no1
Julia Wells[1] Dennis Douglas McCarthy was born, as he wrote, ‘during the dying days of the 19th century in the reign of Queen Victoria … in a small house near the water tower in Invercargill, New Zealand’.[2] After training at the Otago Medical School in...
by administrator | Sep 14, 2016 | ENNZ, Vol10 no1
Linda Tyler[1] Natural history, and in particular, botanising was a popular interest for all strata of society in nineteenth century colonial society. Botanical science relied on illustration to convey the wonders of ‘the vegetable kingdom’ throughout the era of...
