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During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation.

A Home in the Howling Wilderness Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand

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    Publisher: Auckland University Press
    Publication Date: 4/30/2013
    ISBN13: 9781869407391, 978-1869407391
    ISBN10: 1869407393

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation.

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