Name: Wild Heart
Brand: Otago University Press (NZ)
SKU: 9781877578205
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Wild Heart

The possibility of wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand

Edited by: Mick Abbott, Edited by: Richard Reeve

Published by Otago University Press (NZ)

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£17.95

Published: 01-Jan-2011
ISBN: 9781877578205

Paperback
244 Pages
colour illus

Subjects:
Indigenous peoples
The environment
Conservation of wildlife & habitats
New Zealand

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This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What and where is New Zealand's wilderness? Is the wilderness something that we lock up or not? How do Maori see wilderness? How is it defined by law and what is government policy? Why? Where does that leave us? What do we want of wilderness? Can we exploit its resources?

Mick Abbott is Director of the Master of Design programme in the Department of Applied Sciences at the University of Otago.

Richard Reeve was born in Dunedin in 1976. He has published four previous collections of poems: Dialectic of Mud (Auckland University Press, 2001), The Life and the Dark (AUP, 2004), In Continents (AUP, 2008) and The Among (Maungatua Press, 2008). He has been awarded a number of prizes, including the 1998 MacMillan Brown Prize and the 2002/03 Todd Foundation Writer's Bursary, and has had poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems in 2001, 2004 and 2007. Reeve's poems have been widely published in literary journals such as London Magazine, Meanjin, Rattapallax, Southerly, Landfall and Glottis. He is a former university tutor and publishing editor, and currently works as a lawyer. He lives in Warrington in North Otago.