LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND, Ronald Cometti

NEW ZEALAND'S FOREMOST WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND is a timely celebration of this unique natural world and a fascinating record. Author and wildlife artist Ronald Cometti provides first an account of Little Barrier's early history, then embarks on an exhilarating naturalist's tour. In lively essays, thirty colour paintings and more than twenty sketches, he captures the drama and variety of a remarkable island-a defiant coast, well fortified with near vertical cliffs; an awesome, almost impenetrable interior; luxuriant vegetation that passes uniquely in quick succession from coastal cover to wind swept cloud forest; and everywhere birds and bird-song. Combining informative detail with anecdote and the author's infectious enthusiasm.

LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND provides a rare view of an island that has thankfully been allowed to remain forgotten by time, a place that speaks of a wild New Zealand now seldom seen.

Hardback 144 pages Auckland:Hodder & Stoughton (1986) 258mm x 156mm

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