Wanaka
The mountain fastness is close enough to feel powerful but not claustrophobic … The lake has a gleaming, softening presence … There is a serene coherence to it all.
Neville Peat describes the scenic splendour of Wanaka and the myriad activities and attractions for visitors in this updated edition of a book that serves as both a guide to one of New Zealand’s tourism hotspots, and as a souvenir.
The book covers the history of the Wanaka area and its progress into a contemporary centre renowned for an exciting range of outdoor activities and regular events, including the internationally recognized Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. Further material offers a guide to local walking and cycling tracks, local flora and fauna, and Mt Aspiring National Park.
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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