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…
Review: Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature Conservation
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…
The History of the Phormium Flax Industry in Canterbury
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…
‘A Physician to the Sultan’: The East African Environment in the Writings of a New Zealand Doctor
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…
Illustrating the Grasses and the Transactions: John Buchanan’s Development of Technologies for Lithography in Natural History
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…
Review: Lan Yuan: A Garden of Distant Longing
Review: James Beattie and Duncan Campbell with Wynstan Cooper (Images) and Sue Wootton (Poetry). Lan Yuan: A Garden of Distant Longing (Dunedin: Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust and Shanghai Museum, 2013)….