Theatre Country: Essays on Landscapes and Whenua - Paperback

by Geoff Park (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Geoff Park is an ecologist and the author of Nga Uruora/The Groves of Life: Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape.