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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
Auckland: Random House, 2014. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A landmark book about New Zealand's marine reserves that connects readers to New Zealand waters. Written by award-winning natural history writer Janet Hunt, this book examines New Zealand's 34 marine reserves, and the need to protect and preserve our seas and... 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
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
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, 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
