Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke
Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke

Letters of a Naturalist: the field accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island - Susanne Hill, John Hill and Victoria Jaenecke

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A landmark collection of the written natural history legacy of pioneer conservationist Richard Henry (1845-1929), champion of our flightless native birds and New Zealand’s first wildlife ranger. 

The Hill family's involvement with the story of Richard Henry began when their 17-foot Aston longboat, named after Richard Henry's trusty old dinghy Putangi, was lifted over the mountains by helicopter for a three-week sailing holiday amongst the fiords and islands of Tamatea / Dusky Sound in 1974.

 In this adventure, Susanne and John Hill used Richard Henry’s reports to the Department of Lands and Survey as their guide. They soon began to feel great admiration for the man and his trailblazing work and subsequently spent twelve years researching and writing a biography, Richard Henry of Resolution Island ( McIndoe 1987, Cadsonbury 2015).  

The Hills felt it was important that Henry’s many letters about his life in Dusky as New Zealand’s first wildlife ranger and his other written material should be collated and published to put his pioneering conservation work on public record. With this companion book, Letters of a Naturalist, Putangi Publications presents the written legacy of this prominent figure in New Zealand's conservation history.

"The fascinating and beautifully illustrated Letters of a Naturalist presents, for the first time, the collated writings of Richard Henry, pioneer conservationist and New Zealand's first wildlife ranger. It is a testament to the tenacity and foresight of one man, whose efforts to save kākāpō and kiwi still provide inspiration and guidance to those of us continuing his work more than a century later." Dr Andrew Digby, Kākāpō Recovery, Department of Conservation

Putangi Publications, 2022. Hardback with jacket; 470 pages; 300 x 233mm; richly illustrated with over 500 images.

Condition: new hardback. This is a large and heavy book which will incur extra postage. We will get in touch about that after your purchase.