April 2013
$30.00
144pp, Paperback
210 x 148mm, B&W & colour photos & illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-927145-53-1
Banks Peninsula, treasured by Christchurch city dwellers, peninsula residents and visitors from afar, is a unique volcanic landform jutting eastwards into the Pacific from the otherwise unsurprising Canterbury Plains.
Once forested from side to side, and from sea to summits, the land was stripped of nearly all its trees, and much of its original wildlife, by two great waves of human colonisation, Polynesian and European. Much indigenous biodiversity remains, however, and native forest cover is increasing.
