abbott mick (13 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. one corner bumped, otherwise Vg or better. crisp, clean, tight.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What and where is New Zealand's wilderness? Is the wilderness something that we lock up or not? How do Maori see wilderness? How is it defined by law and what is government policy? Why? Where does that leave us? What do we want of wilderness? Can we exploit its resources?

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 243 pages. ex-library book,

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 243 pages. minor cover wear, bumped,

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial card covers, b&w illstns. A near fine ex-reference library copy with clear laminate protection to the covers.

Softcover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy card-stock wraps. Full-color, full-page photographs and illustrations. From the publisher's blurb, "This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What and where is New Zealand's wilderness? Is the wilderness something that we lock up or not? How do Maori see wilderness? How is it defined by law and what is government policy? Why? Where does that leave us? What do we want of wilderness? Can we exploit its resources?" Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [7], 8-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Softcover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. A fine and engaging social scientific exploration of land use in Aotearoa New Zealand by a host of ethnographers, including Janet Stephenson, Mick Abbott, Jacinta Ruru, Tom Brooking, Lyn Carter, Bruce Clarkson, Robert Joseph, Raewyn Peart, Murray Rae, Seth Gorrie, Mick Strack, Linda Te Aho and Anna Thompson. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-243 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Octavo,244 pp.,photographs, softcover. Images of pristine forests, mountain ranges, untameable rivers and empty expanses of untouched coastline are the key attraction in how Aotearoa New Zealand is promoted internationally. Such wildness is at this nation's psychological and physical core. This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What could wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand become, and, consequently, what might we its people also become?

Octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 244pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to inside front cover).

Super octavo, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 221pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers, bruising to lower front cover corner).

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What and where is New Zealand's wilderness? Is the wilderness something that we lock up or not? How do Maori see wilderness? How is it defined by law and what is government policy? Why? Where does that leave us? What do we want of wilderness? Can we exploit its resources?

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. 244p With illustrations, a collection of essays that look backwards and forwards at New Zealand's 'wilderness', as a personal and cultural experience and what it will mean in the future.

Publisher's original stapled illustrated light grey card wrap covers. Oblong 7¼'' x 5'' 20 pages. Complete set of 50 pasted in colour picture cards with descriptive text to the bottom of the cards, each of the 50 cards have their autograph in facsimile across their respective image, last card dated 1937. Light soiling to the covers and in Very Good condition, priced One Penny to the front cover. Member of the P.B.F.A. CIGARETTE & TEA CARDS.