Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Island

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An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one mans dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa. From the publishers who brought you Ockham-longlisted Towards Compostela by Catharina van Bohemen.

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Luminous. Touched with the divine. Kennedy Warne, founder of New Zealand Geographic

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Tim Highams love of wild places and writing has taken him around the world, from our southern most national parks and nature reserves, to Antarctica, and through Asia and the Pacific with the United Nations Environment Programme. More recently hes championed the work of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and Predator Free 2050. Tim has written on science and environmental matters for broadcast and print media, winning a Qantas Media Award, the SATPAC Prize for science journalism and the New Zealand Association of Scientists Journalism Prize. He lives in his off-grid home on Aotea Great Barrier Island.