Theatre Country : Essays On Landscape & Whenua

Description

Geoff Park’s classic of New Zealand environmental writing, Ngā Uruora: The Groves of Life: Ecology & History in a New Zealand Landscape, has been reprinted regularly since its 1995 publication.

This new collection of essays covers subjects as diverse as the ecology of the ordinary inhabited landscape, Polynesian environmental management, the ecological visions of the early Pākehā settlers, and Colin McCahon in the Urewera.

Reviews

"Park is a great researcher and a powerful writer."

—Geoff Chapple, Dominion Post

 

"… this is an important book. Park offers high quality scholarship, makes unlikely and highly valuable connections, and raises questions that need answers. … the questions are left dangling. But in the process of raising them, Park and his publishers have created a beautiful, provocative book."

—David Larsen, Listener

Author description

Geoff Park was a highly regarded ecologist. He was also a research scientist and writer.