Tutira : the story of a New Zealand sheep station

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Tutira : the story of a New Zealand sheep station

by Herbert Guthrie-Smith

Random House New Zealand, 1999

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first published 1921, this edition published 1999, by the Univ. of Washington press

Includes index

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内容説明

Herbert Guthrie-Smith emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1880, eventually farming 40,000 acres on the shores of Lake Tutira in Hawkes Bay. His exploration of his tract of land and his observations of the most minute details of its natural history are the subject of this work. Every living thing that made its home at Tutira - animal and plant, native and exotic, weed and non-weed - came under the scrutiny of this passionate observer of ecological details as he sought to understand the intricate interactions between nature and human beings.

目次

  • Tutira - its prominent physical features
  • rock constituents of the run
  • the lakes
  • the soils of Tutira - past and present
  • subcutaneous erosion
  • surface slips
  • earthquakes I
  • earthquakes II
  • the forest of the past
  • two periods of Maori life
  • trails from the coast to Tutira
  • trails around Tutira Lake
  • the trail to the ranges
  • the vegetation of the station prior to settlement
  • the ferns of Tutira
  • the avifauna of the station prior to settlement
  • in the beginning
  • the lure of improvements
  • hard times
  • the rise and fall of H.G.-S. and A.M.C
  • fern crushing
  • the chartographers of the station
  • stocking and scour
  • the future of native avifauna
  • the partnership of H.G.-S. and T.J.S.
  • the naturalized alien flora of Tutira
  • stowaways
  • garden escapes
  • children of the church
  • burdens of sin
  • fire and flood weeds
  • pedestrians
  • the New Jerusalem, 1930-1939
  • late-comers
  • turf
  • the hanger I
  • the hanger II
  • the stocking of Tutira by alien animals
  • other aliens on Tutira prior to 1882
  • acclimatisation centres and migration routes
  • the invasion from the south
  • the invasion from the north
  • domestic animals "wild"
  • reconsiderations
  • vicissitudes
  • slump and recovery
  • conclusion.

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