Tom Brooking & Eric Pawson, Seeds of Empire, The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand, L.B. Tauris, London, New York, 2010, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1845 117979. David Young This is a…
REVIEW: Quarantine! Protecting New Zealand at the Border
Gavin McLean & Tim Shoebridge, Quarantine! Protecting New Zealand at the Border, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2010, 192pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 82 7. Ondine Godtschalk In recent years, New…
REVIEW: Inspirational Gardens of New Zealand
Kristin Lammerting, photography by Ferdinand Graf von Luckner, Inspirational Gardens of New Zealand, Penguin Books: Auckland, 2010, 228pp. ISBN 9780670074785. Stuart Read This book looks great on first glance. If…
ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand, December 2010
Professor John Andrews reflects on the fascinating interconnections between biology and history, why awareness of history plays a central role in various biological sciences as well as the role of…
GARDEN REVIEW: ‘Te Parapara Garden’ and ‘The Indian Char Bagh 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 will be in for a surprise. Rather…
WEBSITE REVIEW: Exploring New Zealand’s environmental history online
Cath Knight In November 2009, with ample support from my tech-wiz husband, I launched envirohistory NZ, a website exploring New Zealand’s environmental history. The idea for the website came from…