Campbell Island, Land of the Blue Sunflower
by Derek Fell, 160pp hardbound, David Bateman, Auckland 2002, RRP$29.95. An American picks on a down-under icon to entitle this adventure-travel book; the blue sunflower is one of our subantarctic megaherbs, known scientifically — and not much more helpfully — as Pleurophyllum speciosum. A writer and photographer of more than 50 art, travel and garden books, Derek
Fell twice visited Campbell Island and also called on other subantarctic islands. His book is largely an account of a subantarctic voyage with a tourist ship, the people aboard, what he saw, and some of the phenomenal survival tales retold from earlier times. There is a 16-page section of colour photographs of plants and places in the middle of the book, but the remainder of the (black-and-white) photographs are poorly reproduced, possibly because of the paper. This is a ‘once-over-lightly compared with other books on the region.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 309, 1 August 2003, Page 44
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