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Home in the howling wilderness : settlers and the environment in Southern New Zealand / Peter Holland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2013Description: viii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869407393
  • 9781869407391
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630.9937 23
Contents:
The new land: imagined from afar, experienced at first hand -- Maori environmental knowledge: an imperfectly realised resource -- Settlers learning about wind, warmth and rain -- Exceptional challenges: flood and drought, ice and snow -- Away with the old: what place for native plants and animals? -- In with the new: introduced plants and grazing animals -- Emerging environmental problems: erosion and declining soil fertility, pest animals and weedy plants -- Opportunities to see, hear and compare: meetings, sales, competiitions and exhibitions -- Rural people continuning to learn about their environments -- Appendix. Words about home: diaries and letters, commercial transactions, newspapers and magazines.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-243) and index.

The new land: imagined from afar, experienced at first hand -- Maori environmental knowledge: an imperfectly realised resource -- Settlers learning about wind, warmth and rain -- Exceptional challenges: flood and drought, ice and snow -- Away with the old: what place for native plants and animals? -- In with the new: introduced plants and grazing animals -- Emerging environmental problems: erosion and declining soil fertility, pest animals and weedy plants -- Opportunities to see, hear and compare: meetings, sales, competiitions and exhibitions -- Rural people continuning to learn about their environments -- Appendix. Words about home: diaries and letters, commercial transactions, newspapers and magazines.

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