Quarantine!
Protecting New Zealand at the Border
Gavin McLean & Tim Shoebridge
Otago University Press
Biodiversity/Public Policy/History
Hardback, 240 x 170 mm, 192 pp approx, full colour throughout
 $45.00/£19.50 UK

Every day, all over the world, quarantine officials screen international passengers and cargo and every week a border protection story is in the news. As a group of islands for which biosecurity is vital, New Zealand provides an ideal focus for this book, the world’s first national history of quarantine.

Launched in Wellington last evening photo below shows co-author Gavin McLean, Otago University Press publisher Wendy harrex and co-author Tim Shoebridge.