Wild Fiordland: Discovering the Natural History of a World Heritage Area
by Neville Peat
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This is a paperback edition of this book, which was shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards in 1997. It is a major work of regional natural history introducing a New Zealand World Heritage Area, Fiordland National Park. In a world largely modified by humans, Fiordland is a breathing space for nature. It is one of the planet's great wilderness areas, where monumental landscapes combine with a mosaic of miniature worlds. Located on the southwest coast of New Zealand, much of its landscape show more was formed by great valleys carved out by glaciers which are now half-drowned. Milford Sound is one of New Zealand's most remote but necessary tourist destinations, while Dusky Sound provided a home to Captain Cook's Resolution and its scientists, as well as artist William Hodges, for five weeks in 1773. This book is for travellers, nature-lovers and scientists alike. Other books by the same authors in this prize-winning series are Wild Central, Wild Dunedin, and Wild Rivers. show lessTags
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Et smukt værk om geologi, landskaber, plante- og dyreliv i nationalparken Fiordland på New Zealands sydø.
Er perfekt, hvis du skal forberede en vandretur eller sejle på en af fjordene og har lyst til at forberede dig på, hvilke naturoplevelser, der venter. En uundværlig bog for naturelskere.
Er perfekt, hvis du skal forberede en vandretur eller sejle på en af fjordene og har lyst til at forberede dig på, hvilke naturoplevelser, der venter. En uundværlig bog for naturelskere.
Sep 18, 2008Danish
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Neville Peat was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1947. His work focuses on the natural history of southern New Zealand and New Zealand's subantarctic islands. He has written over forty books. He won the 1996 Montana New Zealand Book Award for his book Wild Dunedin. In 2007, he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship. show more In 2016, he won the inaugural NZ$25,000 (A$24,195) Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers Award for nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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