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…
REVIEW: Seeds of Empire, The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand
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…