This is an auction for BEYOND THE ROARING FORTIES: NEW ZEALAND’S SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS by Conon Fraser.

“New Zealand's lonely subantarctic Islands - the Antipodes, Bounty, Snares, Campbell, and Auckland islands - lie south of New Zealand, on the way to Antarctica, isolated by the notorious Roaring Forties and gale-force winds of the Southern Ocean. These islands are vital breeding grounds for millions of sea birds, and tens of thousands of marine mammals. Many animals and plants unique to the region live there. Humans have made negative impact on these remote Islands, by sealing, whaling, farming, hunting, seafarers leaving wild sheep and rats, as well as pollution from shipwrecks. The islands are also in danger of future threats. Today, all five island groups are managed as nature reserves. This book with its superb photographs and illustrations is written in a clear and readable style, and is the first comprehensive book about New Zealand's subantarctic islands. It book contains a fascinating wealth of detail about the birds and other wildlife of the subantarctic islands. It also provides a comprehensive history of human involvement with the islands.”

Large format hardback 1986.

214 pages.

Photographs throughout.

A book plate on the flyleaf. Otherwise, very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.

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