WANAKA Lake, Mountain,

NEW TITLE Adventure INFORMATION Neville Peat OTAGO UNIVERSITY SELLING POINTS • Completely revised and redesigned PRESS • Perfect visitor guide • Brand-new content

PUBLICATION DETAILS The mountain fastness is close enough to feel powerful but not claustrophobic ... The lake has a Wanaka gleaming, softening presence ... There is a serene coherence to it all. Lake, Mountain, Adventure Neville Peat Neville Peat describes the scenic splendour of Wanaka and the myriad activities and attractions for visitors in this updated edition of a book that serves as both a guide to one of New Zealand’s tourism hotspots, and as a souvenir. Otago University Press The book covers the history of the Wanaka area and its progress into a contemporary www.otago.ac.nz/press centre renowned for an exciting range of outdoor activities and regular events, including the Tourism, Conservation internationally recognized Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. Further material offers a guide to full colour paperback local walking and cycling tracks, local flora and fauna, and Mt Aspiring National Park. 170 x 210 mm, 80 pp ISBN 978-1-98-853136-6, $19.95 AUTHOR Neville Peat, a Dunedin writer and photographer, is the author of over 30 books covering themes of geography, biography, history and the natural environment. In 2007 he was awarded IN-STORE: DEC 2018 New Zealand’s largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, See below for ordering information for a book about the Tasman Sea. In the 2018 New Year Honours he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to conservation.

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