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'Bradt Travel Guides simply have the best wildlife coverage of any of the popular guide books.' BBC Wildlife
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Bradt's fully illustrated wildlife guides focus on regions of the world particularly celebrated for their amazing and often unique species. With spectacular photography or exclusive watercolour drawings throughout, each visitors' guide provides an introduction to the region's principal flora and fauna alongside suggested wildlife itineraries, practical information on when to go and what to take and photography tips. Written in a deliberately engaging way, they offer something different from dry field guides, and will appeal to the interested layman as much as the wildlife devotee. Ideal as a lightweight companion to any wildlife trip they also make a handsome souvenir. New Zealand's geographical isolation has allowed an abundance of unique and unusual flora and fauna to flourish. Famous for its flightless birds such as the emblematic kiwi and the endangered takahe, it is also home to lizard-like tuataras, giant kauri trees and a rich coastal marine life. Full-colour throughout, New Zealand Wildlife provides a comprehensive overview of the natural history of the major islands of the archipelago.Thorough background information on geology, geography and palaeontology is coupled with extensive wildlife and habitat listings.
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Format:Paperback
This is an excellent little book, essential reading for anyone with an interest in wildlife, natural history, biology, before a visit to New Zealand - it makes you aware of how weirdly different the native ecology is compared to anything one is familiar with from Europe. Not sure if I will carry it with me when I go however, as it is not arranged in field guide format. I'll probably try to buy a field guide or guides once I get there.
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Book isn't what it tries to be
16 Jun 2010
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This book must have been someone's idea of providing a wildlife guide and a travel guide all in one. It doesn't do either. The wildlife section is completely useless. Here is what I expected: a book with the majority of New Zealand fauna listed in some type of logical order. For example, the book has a section called "Reptiles" but it just says that reptiles live on the island and gives a few examples of common reptiles. It doesn't have pictures of each kind of animal, it doesn't tell how to identify them from other common animals, it doesn't tell where they live on the island, it doesn't do anything that a normal wildlife identification book should do. Very disappointing. Spend the extra money and get the real identification book (this one doesn't even have pictures of the three species of kiwi, let alone any explanation of how to identify one and tell it apart from the weka (another flightless bird). Kea parrot? Apparently forgot the world's ONLY alpine parrot.
The book is set up to tell something of a story and act as a guide book for a tourist (bad idea because it doesn't do that either).
Please, save yourself and don't buy this book. You will be stuck with it half-way around the world and largely disappointed.
The book is set up to tell something of a story and act as a guide book for a tourist (bad idea because it doesn't do that either).
Please, save yourself and don't buy this book. You will be stuck with it half-way around the world and largely disappointed.
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