David Calderwood University of Waikato Sometime in 1993 Luis, an orchardist in the Algarve, stomped up to the environmental centre, cursing in Portuguese. When the director emerged, Luis said to…
Editor’s introduction
Paul Star November 2013 sees the launch of Making a New Land, edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking and published by Otago University Press: a notable event, particularly since…
Review: Empire and Environmental Anxiety
REVIEW: James Beattie, Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hants., 2011. xv+320 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-55320-0. £55.00 hardback. Ian…
Review: An Extraordinary Land
REVIEW: Peter Hayden and Rod Morris, An Extraordinary Land: Discoveries and Mysteries from Wild New Zealand. HarperCollins, Auckland, 2013. 200 pp. ISBN 978 1 86950 963 7. Julian Kuzma Ripley’s…
Collections of letters written by or about James Hector
Simon Nathan[1] James Hector (1834-1907) was the dominant personality in the late nineteenth century scientific community in New Zealand. As the first professional scientist to be employed by the government,…
Leonard Cockayne: A most enthusiastic gardener
Andrew Gregg[1] Leonard Cockayne is known as New Zealand’s greatest botanist and first plant ecologist. Not only was Cockayne an influential and forward-thinking individual who promoted the appreciation and preservation…