Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
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Herbert Guthrie-Smith emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1880, eventually farming 40,000 acres on the shores of Lake Tutira in Hawkes Bay. His exploration of his tract of land and his observations of the most minute details of its natural history are the subject of this work. Every living thing that made its home at Tutira - animal and plant, native and exotic, weed and non-weed - came under the scrutiny of this passionate observer of ecological details as he sought to understand the intricate interactions between nature and human beings.
Published: 1999, Random House New Zealand Ltd, New Zealand
Genre: Natural History: General
Herbert Guthrie-Smith emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1880, eventually farming 40,000 acres on the shores of Lake Tutira in Hawkes Bay. His exploration of his tract of land and his observations of the most minute details of its natural history are the subject of this work. Every living thing that made its home at Tutira - animal and plant, native and exotic, weed and non-weed - came under the scrutiny of this passionate observer of ecological details as he sought to understand the intricate interactions between nature and human beings.