GARDEN REVIEW: ‘Chinese Scholar’s Garden’, Hamilton Gardens PETER SERGEL & GEOFF DOUBE Introduction First-time visitors to Hamilton Gardens who arrive expecting a collection of plants in a traditional botanic garden…
Review: Droughts, Floods & Cyclones
REVIEW: Don Garden, Droughts, Floods & Cyclones: El Niños that Shaped our Colonial Past, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2009, 414 pp., ISBN 978 1 921 509 38 4. CHRIS O’BRIEN1…
Review: Nature and Power
REVIEW: Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 407 pp., ISBN 9780521616737. EDWARD D. MELILLO1 If, as Donald Worster has suggested, ‘environmental…
The “Peace Gardens”, Featherston, South Wairarapa and The Chor-Farmer
Yukiko Numata Bedford1 Sixty-eight cherry trees are in full bloom each year in mid-September at the Japanese Memorial Gardens near Featherston, South Wairarapa (New Zealand). The trees have grown so…
Biologists and History
John Andrews Writing history can at times appear to be something of a free-for-all. There is apparently room for everybody from enthusiastic amateurs to those with professional qualifications and experience…
Editorial Introduction
James Beattie Several treats are in store in the second issue of the year. Professor John Andrews reflects on the fascinating interconnections between biology and history, why awareness of history…