Stations a high country novel by Philip Temple.Published: Collins, Auckland New Zealand., 1979. Hardcover. Book Condition: excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: excellent. 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth covers with gold titles to spine, book and dust wrapper are almost as new. A novel about the high country of the South Island of New Zealand, beginning as first settlers in 1886 the struggle to turn the country into a viable sheep farm. An important NZ writer's second novel after a host of mountaineering and photographic books.