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Kia ora koutou
Welcome to our October newsletter.
The days are getting longer and we’re looking forward to spending more time outside again. How timely, then, to be publishing two new books this month for anyone wanting to become more familiar with the unique birdlife and flora of Aotearoa.
Ngā mihi nui,
The Te Papa Press team
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We’re delighted to introduce these accessible, handsomely illustrated guides to commonly encountered native plant and bird species of Aotearoa. Each book in this lightweight, hardback series – designed by award-winning designer Tim Denee – has a crisp look and feel, ideal for pocketing for tramps, or for using at home. We look forward to adding to this series in 2023.
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Te Taiao Nature Series: Native Plants of Aotearoa
Carlos Lehnebach and Heidi Meudt
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Native Plants of Aotearoa describes and beautifully illustrates 50 of our most interesting and commonly encountered species. Written by Te Papa botanists, it includes useful descriptions on each species and insights into the museum’s fieldwork and collections. The illustrations are from Te Papa’s collections, based on sketches from fresh plant specimens collected by the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on board HMS Endeavour during Cook’s 1786–71 expedition.
Read more here
Look inside here
Read the Ten Question Q&A with Carlos Lehnebach and Heidi Meudt here
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PUB DATE: 20 October 2022 | NZ RRP: $27 | ISBN: 978-1-99-115093-6 | Hardback, 184 x 125 mm, 132 pages
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Native Birds of Aotearoa describes 60 of our most interesting species of forest, garden, wetland, coastal, alpine and marine birds . Written by Birds New Zealand editor, Michael Szabo, and with an introduction by Te Papa Curator Vertebrates, Alan Tennyson, it’s published in collaboration with Birds New Zealand. Native Birds includes ornithologist notes on each species and insights into the museum’s fieldwork and collections. It’s charming original illustrations have been complemented in the same style by illustrator Pippa Keel.
Read more here
Look inside here
Read the Ten Question Q&A with Michael Szabo here
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PUB DATE: 20 October 2022 | NZ RRP: $27 | ISBN: 978-1-99-115094-3 | Hardback, 184 x 125 mm,144 pages
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At last! A book to accompany Te Papa’s ground-breaking exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War. Over three million visitors have been though the exhibition to date. This information-packed overview of the campaign, and the exhibition that tells the story of those caught up in it, is a brilliant way to reflect on its impact and achievement.
We look forward to sharing it with you all in December.
Look inside here
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PUB DATE: 1 December 2022 | NZ RRP: $35 | ISBN: 978-1-99-115095-0 | Limpbound, 250 x 190 mm, 256 pages
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Lost in the Museum
- “The book’s stunning illustrations will fascinate both young and independent readers … An imaginative and informative read.” —Hannah Taylor-Rose, Magpies
- “I love this book so much. It is a book that hugs you, that inspires you, that sets you musing and thinking ... Reading this book is as good as a trip to the museum as it opens doors and leaves you enriched. I do hope it is in every school library and on every family bookshelf.” —Paula Green, Poetry Box
Why is That Spider Dancing?
- “One appreciates the hours and hours of observation the two authors put into learning about and understanding these creatures ... This wonderful insightful book will intrigue and inspire many readers of all ages” —Rosemary Tisdall, Magpies
Protest Tautohetohe
- “... When it comes time for those involved in the anti-mandate protests of February and March 2022 to decide what to do with the objects that survived the burning and chaos of 2022 … How might our understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand be shaped by such objects, if at all? Time, it seems, will tell, as the intrepid authors of Protest Tautohetohe well understand.” —Māmari Stephens (Te Rarawa), Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies Vol. 2 (September 2022)
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To celebrate the new Te Taiao Nature Series we have two pairs of the first two books to give away to two lucky newsletter subscribers.
To go in the draw to win both Native Plants of Aotearoa and Native Birds of Aotearoa, please email tepapapress@tepapa.govt.nz by 14 October. Please note that this offer is only available to our newsletter readers in New Zealand.
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Te Papa Press will be launching the Te Taiao Nature Series at Unity Books Wellington on Tuesday 25 October at 6pm. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. Please RSVP here.
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Te Papa Press
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
PO Box 467, Cable Street
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
Email: tepapapress@tepapa.govt.nz
Phone: 04 381 7470
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