Home in the Howling Wilderness - Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand

Informationen zum Autor Peter Holland is a professor of geography at Otago University and a former professor at McGill University in Montreal. He has written widely on New Zealand's environmental history and is a contributor to Seeds of Empire , an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, and the recipient of the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal. Klappentext 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. Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation. Zusammenfassung 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. Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Holland
• Publisher: Paul & co. publishing corporat
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9781869407391
• ISBN: 978-1-86940-739-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous