Salmon country: a history of the Pacific salmon.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. More
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Ecosanctuaries: communities building a future for New Zealand's threatened ecologies.
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
Essential Audrey Eagle: botanical art of New Zealand.
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. In 2006, the award-winning Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic for New Zealand botanists, gardeners and art-lovers. By popular demand, this accessible, affordable new edition presents a beautiful..... More
New Zealand inventory of biodiversity, volume one: Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterotomia.
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
New Zealand inventory of biodiversity, volume two: Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.
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
Protecting paradise: 1080 and the fight to save New Zealand's wildlife.
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
The field guide to the birds of New Zealand.
Auckland: Viking, (2015. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. New Zealand's most loved field guide has now been fully revised and updated. Comprehensive, reliable and easy to use, this edition covers 374 species, including 35 new additions, making this the book's biggest revision since it was first..... More
The animals of New Zealand: an account of the Dominions air-breathing vertebrates.
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
The rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, text illustrations, maps. From sleek shortbelly rockfish that resemble mackerels to heavy-bodied cowcod, the rockfishes display a bewildering array of shapes, sizes and colors. Some of most important marine fishes on the Pacific Coast of the..... More
Chatham Islands: heritage and conservation.
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, (2008. revised edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This much anticipated revised and expanded edition describes the Chatham Islands, with particular emphasis on their geology, flora, fauna, habitats, and extinct and endangered species - both on the land and in the sea. It gives an introduction..... More
Lost gold: ornithology of the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands.
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2020. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This special book-format issue of Birds New Zealands journal Notornis (Volume 67 Part 1 March 2020) is devoted to the birds of the Auckland Islands Maukahuka/Motu Maha, the largest and biologically most diverse island group in the New Zealand subantarctic region..... More
Know your New Zealand birds.
Auckland: New Holland, 2006. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. An introduction to over 80 of New Zealand's best-known birds. Includes details on appearance, call, behaviour and nesting to aid identification. Each entry is accompanied by a data panel and colour photograph. More
Buller's birds of New Zealand: the complete work of JG Keulemans.
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2014. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations. In 2012, the comprehensive, landmark publication Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans presented all-new reproductions of JG Keulemans' definitive 19th century images of New Zealand's native birds, from both editions and the..... More
Making a new land: environmental histories of New Zealand.
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
New Zealand's wild places.
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
New Zealand book of beasts: animals in our culture, history and everyday life.
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
The hand guide to the birds of New Zealand.
Auckland: Penguin Books, (2015. third edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, maps. This guide is a trusted, invaluable reference to take out into the field. Comprehensive and easy to use, this new edition features 374 species, including rare and recently extinct species. The only hand guide to New Zealand birds officially..... More
Birds of the west wind: how Australia has shaped New Zealand's avian life.
Auckland: G. J. Books, 2016. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The origin of New Zealand birds is a story whose continuing evolution in the last 30 years especially has upset many apple carts - from the idea that the moa has evolved from a small South American bird which flew to..... More
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