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
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
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, 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 known as Ecdysozoa (moulting animals)..... More
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
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
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
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
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, 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 as moa-hunting and the SPCA..... More