REVIEW: Robert Peden, Making Sheep Country: Mount Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2011, 280 pp, ISBN 978-1-86940-485-7. Jonathan West[1] One winter not…
Review: Māori and the Environment
REVIEW: Māori and the Environment: Kaitiaki. Edited by Rachael Selby, Pātaka Moore and Malcolm Mulholland, Huia Publishers, 2010, 372 pp., ISBN: 978-1-86969-402-9.[1] Charles Dawson[2] The nineteen essays in this book…
Review: The Settler’s Plot
REVIEW: Alex Calder, The Settler’s Plot: How Stories Take Place In New Zealand, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2011, 299 pp., ISBN 978 1 86940 488 8. Julian Kuzma[1] Books on…
Latest issue of Environment & Nature in New Zealand
The first issue for 2011 is a bumper one, containing a rich variety of writing on the environment. First up, Victoria University of Wellington’s Amy Davis provides a fascinating examination…
‘For Beauty and Health’
Nature and Environment in Suburban Karori, Wellington[1] Amy Davis Tho’ for Europe’s bold races there are plenty of places Adapted as homes for the great and the small, Yet…
陈达枝 Chan Dah Chee (1851 -1930)
Pioneer Chinese Market Gardener and Auckland Businessman[1] Lily Lee and Ruth Lam Chan Dah Chee 陈达枝, or Ah Chee as he was more commonly known,[2] was one of the most…