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Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand
Peter Holland
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; HBT; RGC; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 650.
During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility ... Read more
During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869407391
SKU
V9781869407391
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14
About Peter Holland
Peter Holland is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on grasslands history. In 2008, Professor Holland won New Zealand’s highest award for a geographer, the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Gold Medal, from the New Zealand Geographical Society.
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