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  • Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark

    de Neville Peat ...
    Series series The Lark
    One of New Zealand's finest observers of the natural world takes us on a journey from Otago to the subantarctic and follows the life and migration of a sea lion. With the taut and accurate prose of a scientist, and the lyrical sense of an artist, Neville Peat's compelling style lures us into gaining an immense amount of information. In a work that is deeply intimate and wonderfully expansive, ... Leer más

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  • High Country Lark

    An Invitation To Paradise

    de Neville Peat ...
    Series series The Lark
    An award-wining writer travels through the New Zealand high country. An unusual summons from an old, itinerant acquaintance — known as the Lark — piques author Neville Peat’s curiosity. The invitation to meet in the mountains around Glenorchy is timely: he’s keen to head into the high country to investigate recent reports of sightings of the near-extinct kokako. The South Island high country has ... Leer más

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  • The Falcon and the Lark

    de Neville Peat ...
    Series series The Lark
    Part memoir, part natural history, a journey through Central Otago and encounters with New Zealand's magnificent native falcon. An evocative seasonal journal in which the author explores his roots in the rock-and-tussock country of Central Otago. He uncovers all; that is curious and distinctive there, in a rich blend of autobiography folklore and natural history. Along the way he meets up with a ... Leer más

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  • Australia 1901–2001

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  • The Genius of Birds

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  • Closing Hell's Gates

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    Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of ... Leer más

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  • Indonesia, Etc.

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  • The Victorian Bush: its 'original and natural' condition

    de Ron Hateley ...
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  • Yachting Yarns from South Australia

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