Thursday, October 02, 2014

AUP author wins award

Congratulations to Professor Peter Holland who has won the 2014 ARANZ Ian Wards Prize for for his major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. HOME IN THE HOWLING WILDERNESS undertakes a deep history of nineteenth century European settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation.Congratulations to Professor Peter Holland who has won the 2014 ARANZ Ian Wards Prize for for his major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. 

HOME IN THE HOWLING WILDERNESS undertakes a deep history of nineteenth century European settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation.

Peter Holland is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Otago.  He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on grasslands history. In 2008, Professor Holland won New Zealand’s highest award for a geographer, the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Gold Medal, from the New Zealand Geographical Society.

AUP - February 2013 - $49.99

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