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
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Chronicles the demise of the North American Salmon Industry. 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
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
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
Wellington: Te Papa Press, (2010. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, maps. This substantially revised and expanded edition of the Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand is the official list of all the birds in the New Zealand region, including Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Published in..... 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
Redcliffs: Sandfly Publications, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, oblong format, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book of New Zealand's native birds that will appeal to the casual bird-watcher as well as the ornithologist. The photographs in this book have been taken by David Hallett, one of New Zealand's leading wildlife photographers, who..... 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: 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
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, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book is an intimate and rare look at the beginning of a Tui's life. It is presented as a series of photographs showing the 37-day development of a pair of Tui from eggs to fledglings. One spring morning in 2011..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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