Theatre country : essays on landscape & whenua / Geoff Park.
"Geoff Park's acclaimed Nga Uruora: The Groves of Life reported on an ecologist's journey into history. Theatre Country, his new collection of essays on landscape and whenua, tracks from the same premise: that you see a landscape differently when you have insight into its history as w...
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Wellington, N.Z. :
Victoria University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : A more indigenous life
- The Polynesian forest
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield's dream, Thomas Shepherd's eye and New Zealand's spatial constitution
- Look for signs of life : Nature and the genius loci in the Austal city
- 'I belong with the wild side of New Zealand' : The flowing land in Colin McCahon
- Conservation : Extinction wave or healing tide?
- Going between goddesses : The ecology of looking to ourselves after Britannia and Papuatūānuku
- After the scene, after the fever
- Theatre country
- The ecology of the visit
- Beyond the beauty spots of the uninitiated
- Our terra nullius
- 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained'
- A moment for landscape
- A regard for pristine loveliness
- Primitive savages and primæval samples
- Whenua : The ecology of placental connection
- Notes.