Vaughan Wood It is just over ten years since the first issue of ENNZ: Environment and Nature appeared. In that time it has provided a forum for more than 40…
Recent Publication: Stewart Island: Rakiura National Park
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…