Wild Dunedin
Dunedin city and its environs are home to an amazing range of habitats and landscapes, of plants, animals, birds, insects and geological features. From the ocean, with its albatrosses and penguins, to the high alpine zone of inland ranges, this book introduces a magnificent natural environment.
This revised edition of Wild Dunedin includes new and updated information and stunning new images, including a look at the jewel in Dunedin’s natural history crown, Orokonui Ecosanctuary.
An essential guide to the natural beauty of this stunning southern city.
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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Brian Patrick
Brian Patrick is the co-author of several books on natural history and invertebrates, including Wild Central and Wild Fiordland (with Neville Peat), Butterflies of the South Pacific (with Hamish Patrick) and Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand (with Brian Parkinson). He has worked for the Department of Conservation, New Zealand, as a senior manager in museums, and now works as a scientist in an ecological consultancy in Christchurch.
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Wild Rivers 
Wild Fiordland 
Wild Central 
Southern Land, Southern People 
Queenstown 
Kiwi 
Detours 
Seabird Genius 
Wanaka 
Stewart Island Rakiura National Park