Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark
by Neville Peat, 184pp, limpback, Longacre Press, Dunedin 2001, RRP$29.95. There aren’t many literary writers in New Zealand, who write well and accurately about our outdoors, but Neville Peat is one. Described as a naturalist’s musing on the southern sea and the coast, Coasting is a philosophical voyage about Otago and the subantarctic in the company of a sea lion.
Along the way Neville Peat encounters southern people too. His book has space for those grand southern seascapes, and for the atmosphere they evoke, the feeling for local history and the origins of traditions. Neville Peat bases his ‘musings’ on science but writes reflectively around his subjects. If you fancy more than statistics and DNA, when discovering our wildlife and habitat, Neville Peat offers a rounder view.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 302, 1 November 2001, Page 44
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