Review: Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (Eds.), Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2013). 391 pp. ISBN 978-1-877578-52-6. NZ$40.00 paperback. Ruth Morgan1 The…
Review: Rivers: New Zealand’s Shared Legacy
Review: David Young, Rivers: New Zealand’s Shared Legacy (Auckland: Random House, 2013). 240 pp. ISBN 9781775534501. NZ$59.99 hardback. Joanne Whittle1 David Young is a professional writer in the fields of…
Review: Island Reserves and Mainland Islands, including a Review of Ecosanctuaries
Diane Campbell-Hunt with Colin Campbell-Hunt, Ecosanctuaries: Communities Building a Future for New Zealand’s Threatened Ecologies (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2013). 292 pp. ISBN 978-1-877578-56-4. NZ$40.00 paperback. Paul Star1 In the…
The Story of the Fallow Deer: An Exotic Aspect of British Globalisation
Simon Canaval1 Fallow deer have a long history of semi-domestication by humans. In antiquity they spread within Europe, and were associated with various cults of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans….
Timber Town: A History of Port Craig
Alistair McMechan1 In nineteenth-century New Zealand, clearing the landscape was widely considered to be ‘virtuous and proper’.[2] Settler mentality generally regarded forests as inexhaustible and an impediment to progress. While…
Editor’s Introduction
Paul Star European New Zealanders have always been unsure how to deal with the western side of South Island, most of which is remote, mountainous and forested. It has never…