The Life-Size Guide to Insects and Other Land Invertebrates of New Zealand

Science & Math

Andrew Crowe

Biological Sciences

Penguin Books (NZ)

Discover and identify New Zealand's amazing insects, by best-selling author Andrew Crowe. Ninety percent of New Zealand's insects are unique. Many of these little-known creatures play an important part in our ecology. Which New Zealand Insect? showcases the variety and beauty of this often overlooked side of our wildlife heritage. With over 650 life-size colour photographs and three times as many species as the author's The Life-Size Guide to Insects this is an ideal field guide for children, trampers, mountaineers and conservation workers.

Which New Zealand Insect?

A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand's Land Birds

Nature & Ecology

Penguin??Books

Which Native Fern? A Simple Guide To The Identification Of New Zealand Native Ferns

This new re-written edition of the best-selling NZ classic Which Native Tree? now includes comprehensive ecological information on the tree and its environment. As well as the known uses of each plant, from snow sandals, hair ties, combs, whistles, baskets and dyes, to food, medicine and timber, it also explains how to grow each plant in your own garden. Use Andrew Crowe's unique leafy key to confidently identify the shrubs, climbers, perching plants and groundcovers of New Zealand's native forest. Colour photographs of leaves and associated creatures, graphics giving plant shape and height, plant distribution maps and ID checklists listing distinguishing features are all helpful tools to identify New Zealand's native trees.

Which Native Forest Plant?

Penguin New Zealand

A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants have been utilised (particularly by Maori), their nutritional value, and where they can be found. In a separate section, Andrew Crowe also describes important poisonous plants that are native to New Zealand or are likely to be confused with the edible plants. Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, this informative book will be of interest to trampers, botanists and all who appreciate New Zealand's native flora.

Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand

Penguin

Life-size Guide to New Zealand Native Ferns: Featuring the Unique Caterpillars Which Feed on Them

The Life-Size Guide to Native Trees

A Kiwi Has No Wings--New Zealand's Unique National Bird (Wild Stories)

Peter Campbell

Heinemann Primary

'a masterful synthesis of the remarkable voyaging history of the Polynesians' Patrick V Kirch, Professor Emeritus, University of California 'Wonderfully informative and entertaining' New Zealand Weekend Herald Pathway of the Birds explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world's largest ocean in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory. Were Polynesians adept at navigating return voyages or had they settled the Pacific in a more random fashion? In an effort to find out, Crowe surveys a wealth of evidence from surprisingly diverse sources, including archaeology, palaeoecology, genetics, ethnology and linguistics, and presents it here in the context of Polynesian poetry, the long-distance migration of birds, non-instrument navigation, and wind tunnel experiments. From this, a spell-binding picture emerges of a people who have been deprived of recognition for some of their most illustrious achievements. Through an engaging narrative, integrating a diversity of research and viewpoints, and over 400 maps, diagrams, photographs and illustrations, Crowe conveys the skills, innovation, resourcefulness and courage of the people that drove this extraordinary feat of maritime expansion in a format that is both accessible to the lay reader and required reading for any serious scholar of this fascinating region.

Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and Their Polynesian Ancestors

History

Australia & Oceania

David Bateman Ltd.

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