Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, (2004. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book describes Great Barrier Island's, New Zealand, history and natural features, including flora, fauna, habitats and endangered species, both terrestrial and marine. More about Great Barrier Island
Dunbeath: Otago University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Over the past ten years many communities all over New Zealand have launched ambitious projects to bring native ecologies back to the mainland. By building predator-proof fences around big areas of land the aim is to protect native flora and fauna... More about Ecosanctuaries: communities building a future for New Zealand's threatened ecologies
Auckland: Random House, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. New Zealand is world famous for its natural environment: its changeable and unique landscape, its strange and wonderful flora and fauna. This book is both guidebook and celebration, a handbook outlining the most significant features of our wilderness and introducing the... More about Wild New Zealand from the road
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2009. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. The first of three volumes that will chart the progress of a scientific inventory of New Zealand's live and fossil biodiversity. This is a lavish production and value for money. An international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand... More about New Zealand inventory of biodiversity, volume one: Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa,...
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity. Volume 2 deals with the major branch of the animal kingdom... More about New Zealand inventory of biodiversity, volume two: Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa,...
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2016. Octavo, paperback, New Zealand's native wildlife is in crisis, withering under a relentless assault from rats, stoats, possums and other introduced pests. If we are to realise the vision of a predator-free New Zealand, we must defend our biodiversity more doggedly, across a broader front... More about Protecting paradise: 1080 and the fight to save New Zealand's wildlife
Auckland: Harper Collins, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. New Zealand has long been an isolated outpost for life in the midst of the ocean. This isolation has turned New Zealand into a wild laboratory where evolution could conduct experiments that led to weird and wonderful outcomes. This uniqueness has also... More about An extraordinary land: discoveries and mysteries from wild New Zealand
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. A geologist and a supporter of Darwinian theory, Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1836-1905) emigrated to New Zealand in 1866. There became Professor of Biology at Canterbury College and won awards both in Britain and Australasia for his work on the... More about The animals of New Zealand: an account of the Dominions air-breathing vertebrates
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2007. Quarto, in slipcase, colour photographs. New Zealand's wilderness heritage is destined to be one of the most significant conservation books published in New Zealand for many years. Written by Les Molloy, and photographed by Craig Potton with additional wildlife photography by Rod Morris, this book... More about New Zealand's wilderness heritage
Dunedin: Otago University Press, (2013. second edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... More about Making a new land: environmental histories of New Zealand
Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2013. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. One of New Zealand's most distinguished landscape photographers, Craig Potton is famous for his moody, often dramatic images that signal a deeply felt connection with the wild places of New Zealand. As a photographer with little interest in a sentimentalised... More about New Zealand's wild places
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations. A groundbreaking examination of the interactions between humans and animals in New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media and everyday life. Structured in four parts, the Book of Beasts touches on topics as diverse... More about New Zealand book of beasts: animals in our culture, history and everyday life