Southern Land, Southern People

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Format: Paperback Author: Neville Peat Category: Natural History Published: 18 September 2002 ISBN-13: 9781877276163 Availability: Out of print Dimension: 240 x 170mm More Details

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Diverse, dynamic, beautiful, unique …
Southern New Zealand is an extraordinary region.

This book celebrates Otago Museum’s major new ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ gallery, opened at the end of August 2002. It offers a comprehensive insight into the character of the region – its astonishing landforms, lost fauna and flora, fossil record and boisterous climate – and the way people have explored this challenging landscape and utilised its natural resources.

About the author

Neville Peat

Neville Peat is an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer. His books also cover genres such as history, geography and the environment. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards' Natural Heritage Category in 1996. In...