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Author Holland, Peter

Title Home in the Howling Wilderness : Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand
Published Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (470 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The New Land: Imagined from Afar, Experienced at First Hand; One: Māori Environmental Knowledge: An Imperfectly Realised Resource; Two: Settlers Learning about Wind, Warmth and Rain; Three: Exceptional Challenges: Flood and Drought, Ice and Snow; Four: Away with the Old: What Place for Native Plants and Animals?; Five: In with the New: Introduced Plants and Grazing Animals; Six: Emerging Environmental Problems: Erosion and Declining Soil Fertility, Pest Animals and Weedy Plants
Seven: Opportunities to See, Hear and Compare: Meetings, Sales, Competitions and ExhibitionsEight: Rural People Continuing to Learn about their Environments; Appendix: Words about Home: Diaries and Letters, Commercial Transactions, Newspapers and Magazines; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Backcover
Summary During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Through various letter books, ledgers, diaries, and journals, this book reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers, and going to lectures at the Mecha
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Subject Agriculture -- New Zealand -- South Island -- History -- 19th century
Human ecology -- New Zealand -- South Island
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- New Zealand -- South Island
Colonists -- New Zealand -- South Island
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
Agriculture
Colonists
Ecology
Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
SUBJECT South Island (N.Z.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject New Zealand -- South Island
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775580034
1775580032