Philip Temple: Presenting New Zealand: A nation's heritage

By MARGIE THOMSON

This is a gorgeous pictorial romp through the history and geography of New Zealand told skilfully and engagingly - a coffee-table book that is also a pleasure to read.

" 'Last, loneliest, loveliest ... ' So Rudyard Kipling wrote of Auckland more than a century ago.

But his eulogy applies easily to the entire windswept, sea-hemmed stretch of the Happy Isles of Aotearoa New Zealand, so far from the rest of the world that they are less a part of it than its model.

They form an exemplar of its landscapes and, on a planet increasingly burned, ravaged and poisoned, a South Pacific life-raft for ancient forests and pristine waters with skies that remain cerulean blue."

New Holland

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