The Catlins and the Southern Scenic Route
An out-of-the-way corner of the South Island, the Catlins is a beautiful and relatively unspoilt area with many natural attractions, including that rare thing on the east coast, native forest.
Neville Peat introduces the region – its flora, wildlife, bush walks, caves and waterfalls – before tracing the journey along the stunning Southern Scenic Route linking Otago, Southland and Fiordland.
Neville Peat
Neville Peat (1947–2026) was an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer whose work explored the landscapes, wildlife and environmental history of Aotearoa New Zealand. His books also ranged across history and geography. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards Natural Heritage category in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded New Zealand’s largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. He lived on the Otago Peninsula, close to the albatrosses, penguins and sea lions that featured in his writing.
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