Dusky Bay and Preservation Harbour | Tales from New Zealand's Last True Wilderness | John Breen | Signed Book
The far far southwest of nowhere...
Warring Maori, the world's greatest navigator-explorer, rapacious sealers and whaler on a mission of destruction from the other side of the world, birdmen naturalists, batty prospectors, unscrupulous specimen collectors, hard-bitten goldminers, optimistic timber men, isolated lighthouse men, unbridled crayfishers, madcap deer hunters and their marauding airborne, fire-spitting machines creating mayhem every which way they turn, not to mention idiot ground-hunters in pursuit of a wild animal the size of a draught-horse that hasn't been in seen in more than 60 years... All in all an incomprehensible wilderness of rearing mountains and rain-soaked bush, deadly flooded rivers, deep-gouged fiord, storm-thrashed coast, heaving seas - this place, its natural and human history like no other on this earth.