Lake, Mountain, Tree

This anthology brings together a selection of writing on New Zealand nature and landscape. From the journal of Joseph Banks, naturalist aboard Cook's Endeavour, to 7- year-old poet Laura Ranger, from Jane Mander to Barry Crump, Lake, Mountain, Tree is a sampling of the various ways in which New Zealanders and visitors to our shores have perceived and responded to our rich and diverse natural world over the past 200 years. Accounts of discovery and confrontation from explorers and early settlers, such as William Colenso and Lady Barker, give way to the fond and confident appreciations of those, such as Hone Tuwhare and Neville Peat, who know and love the land and its life. Including over 95 contributions of fiction, poetry and prose, Lake, Mountain, Tree taps a rich vein of observation and imagination, revealing a clear sense of place and the kind of relationship called identity.

Format: Paperback - Great condition

Published: Godwit
Published: 1998
ISBN: 9781869620226