Story: Non-fiction

Environmental writing

Environmental writing

In Ngā ururoa: the groves of life (1995) and Theatre country: essays on landscape and whenua, Geoff Park interpreted issues relating to New Zealand's natural environment in a radically new way. He took an interdisciplinary approach, exploring how ecology, history and culture could interact.

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Reference: Geoff Park, Ngā uruora: the groves of life: ecology and history in a New Zealand landscape. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995 (left); Geoff Park, Theatre country: essays on landscape & whenua. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006 (right)

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Alex Calder, 'Non-fiction - Questioning orthodoxies', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/object/43316/environmental-writing (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Alex Calder, published 22 Oct 2014