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)….
Review: Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand
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…