Research Catalog

Title

Tutira : the story of a New Zealand sheep station / by Herbert Guthrie-Smith.

Author

Guthrie-Smith, H. (Herbert), 1862-1940

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xxii, 464 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Weyhaeuser environmental classics

Uniform Title

Weyhaeuser environmental classics.

Subject

• Natural history > New Zealand > Tutira
• Ecology > New Zealand > Tutira
• Sciences naturelles > Nouvelle-Zélande > Tutira
• Environnement > Nouvelle-Zélande > Tutira
• Ecology
• Natural history
• Tutira (N.Z.)
• Tutira (Nouvelle-Zélande)
• New Zealand > Tutira

Note

• Previously published: Wellington : Reed, 1969 [i.e. 1970]. 4th ed.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword by William Cronon -- Original preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Acknowledgements to the third edition -- Preface to the fourth edition -- 1. Tutira-it's prominent physical features -- 2. Rock constituents of the run -- 3. The lakes -- 4, The soils of Tutira-past and present -- 5. Subcutaneous erosion -- 6. Surface slips -- 7. Earthquakes 1 -- 8. Earthquakes 2 -- 9. The forest of the past -- 10. Two periods of Maori life -- 11. Trails from the coast to Tutira -- 12. Trails round Tutira Lake -- 13. The trail to the ranges -- 14. The vegetation of the station prior to settlement -- 15. The ferns of Tutira -- 16. The avifuna of the station prior to settlement -- 17. In the beginning -- 18. The lure of improvements -- 19. Hard times -- 20. The rise and fall of H.G.-s and A.M.C. -- 21. Fern-crushing -- 22. The chartographers of the station -- 23. Stocking and scour -- 24. The future of native avifauna -- 25. The partnership of H.G.- and T.J.S. -- 26. The naturalised alien flora of Tutira -- 27. Stowaways -- 28. Garden escapes -- 29. Children of the church -- 30. Burdens of sin -- 31. Fire and flood weeds -- 32. Pedestrians -- 33. The new Jerusalem, 1930-1939 -- 34. Late-comers -- 35. Turf -- 36. The hanger 1 -- 37. The hanger 2 -- 38. The stocking of Tutira by alien animals -- 39. Other aliens on Tutira prior to 1882 -- 40. Acclimatisation centres and migration routes -- 41. The invasion from the south -- 42. The invasion from the north -- 43. Domestic animals "wild" -- 44. Reconsiderations -- 45. Vicissitudes -- 46. Slump and recovery -- 47. Conclusion -- Appendix to fourth edition: Plants and animals: nomenclature.

ISBN

• 0295977930
• 9780295977935

LCCN

99010930

OCLC

• 40755222
• SCSB-12344497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library