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Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua
Contributors:
By (Author) Geoff Park
Publisher:
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint:
Victoria University Press
Publication Date:
5th May 2006
Country:
New Zealand
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
The environment
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Dewey:
824
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Description
The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is appraised ;in this collection of essays from a leading New Zealand environmentalist. The book delves into subjects as diverse as William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, the rise of nature tourism, the ecology of the inhabited landscape, environmental management in Indonesia, the ecological practices of the early Pakeha settlers, and the Urewera landscape paintings of Colin McCahon.
