Author: Suzy Cato
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775436119
Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Depicts the natural treasures that may be found in a kauri forest. Spot the kiwi, the tuatara, the weta and more - even the twinkling Matariki stars above the treetops"--Publisher information.
The Kauri Family
Author: Suzy Cato
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775436119
Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Depicts the natural treasures that may be found in a kauri forest. Spot the kiwi, the tuatara, the weta and more - even the twinkling Matariki stars above the treetops"--Publisher information.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775436119
Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Depicts the natural treasures that may be found in a kauri forest. Spot the kiwi, the tuatara, the weta and more - even the twinkling Matariki stars above the treetops"--Publisher information.
The Song of Kauri
Author: Melinda Szymanik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775432289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Told in the style of a Maori myth, this is the story of a young Kauri sapling as it grows and changes and watches the world around it evolve. From other plants, to birds, to Maori, to settlers, to industrialisation and beyond, and then when the Kauri is very old the birds will lift it up and carry it away"--Publisher information. A sophisticated picture book.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775432289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Told in the style of a Maori myth, this is the story of a young Kauri sapling as it grows and changes and watches the world around it evolve. From other plants, to birds, to Maori, to settlers, to industrialisation and beyond, and then when the Kauri is very old the birds will lift it up and carry it away"--Publisher information. A sophisticated picture book.
From Kauri Trees to Sunlit Seas
Author: Don Silk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastwise shipping
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Silk & Boyd was a highly successful inter-island shipping company based in the Cook Islands. Covering nearly four decades, this book recounts Don Silk's adventures in the Pacific, his near-fatal accident and his yearning for the sea.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastwise shipping
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Silk & Boyd was a highly successful inter-island shipping company based in the Cook Islands. Covering nearly four decades, this book recounts Don Silk's adventures in the Pacific, his near-fatal accident and his yearning for the sea.
Kauri in My Blood
Author: Joanna Orwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869437619
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Laura Ann Findlay lives with her family among the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. Laura describes how the family lives under canvas and cooks on open fires, and how she longs to be able to go to school. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869437619
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Laura Ann Findlay lives with her family among the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. Laura describes how the family lives under canvas and cooks on open fires, and how she longs to be able to go to school. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Kauri Gum and the Gumdiggers
Author: Bruce W. Hayward
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908608393
Category : Gums and resins industry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908608393
Category : Gums and resins industry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Five Acre Forest
Author: Trish Nicholson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800466668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In transit from the globe-trotting life of an aid worker, Trish Nicholson came upon an eroded dune beside a lake in New Zealand’s far north and felt a strange attachment.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800466668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In transit from the globe-trotting life of an aid worker, Trish Nicholson came upon an eroded dune beside a lake in New Zealand’s far north and felt a strange attachment.
Wise Trees
Author: Diane Cook
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683351770
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world. From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas. This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683351770
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world. From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas. This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!
Peka and Koro
Author: Karyn Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473489519
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Peka the baby bat leaves the family roost on her first solo flight. It turns into a big night of adventure when she meets other unique nocturnal native creatures of New Zealand"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473489519
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Peka the baby bat leaves the family roost on her first solo flight. It turns into a big night of adventure when she meets other unique nocturnal native creatures of New Zealand"--Back cover.
STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER
Author: JANE. MANDER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033167625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033167625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Totara
Author: Philip G. Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869409067
Category : Totara
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A new softback edition of this modern classic of our most renowned tree, the totara. A wonder of evolution, the big tree of the forest, the wood behind Maori carving and Pakeha fence posts: the 'mighty totara' is New Zealand's tree and this book tells its story. The 'mighty totara' is one of our most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand can be told through totara. Simpson tells that story like nobody else could. In words and pictures, through waka and leaves, farmers and carvers, he takes us deep inside the trees: their botany and evolution, their role in Maori life and lore, their uses by Pakeha, and their current status in our environment and culture. By doing so, Simpson illuminates the natural world and the story of Maori and Pakeha in this country. Our largest trees, the kauri Tane Mahuta and the totara Pouakani, are both thought to be around 1000 years old. They were here before we humans were and their relatives will probably be here when we are gone. Totara has been central to life in this country for thousands of years. This book tells a great tree's story, and that is our story too.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869409067
Category : Totara
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A new softback edition of this modern classic of our most renowned tree, the totara. A wonder of evolution, the big tree of the forest, the wood behind Maori carving and Pakeha fence posts: the 'mighty totara' is New Zealand's tree and this book tells its story. The 'mighty totara' is one of our most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand can be told through totara. Simpson tells that story like nobody else could. In words and pictures, through waka and leaves, farmers and carvers, he takes us deep inside the trees: their botany and evolution, their role in Maori life and lore, their uses by Pakeha, and their current status in our environment and culture. By doing so, Simpson illuminates the natural world and the story of Maori and Pakeha in this country. Our largest trees, the kauri Tane Mahuta and the totara Pouakani, are both thought to be around 1000 years old. They were here before we humans were and their relatives will probably be here when we are gone. Totara has been central to life in this country for thousands of years. This book tells a great tree's story, and that is our story too.