An out-of-the-way corner of the South Island of New Zealand, the Catlins is a beautiful and relatively unspoilt area with many natural attractions. Neville Peat introduces the region - its flora, wildlife, bush walks, caves and waterfalls - before tracing the journey along the stunning Southern Scenic Route linking Otago, Southland and Fiordland.
An out-of-the-way corner of the South Island, the Catlins is a beautiful and relatively unspoilt area with many natural attractions, including that rare thing on the east coast, native forest. Neville Peat introduces the region its flora, wildlife, bush walks, caves and waterfalls before tracing the journey along the stunning Southern Scenic Route linking Otago, Southland and Fiordland.
Neville Peat is an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer. His books also cover genres such as history, geography and the environment. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards Natural Heritage Category in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded New Zealands largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. He lives on the Otago Peninsula, handy to albatrosses, penguins and sea lions.
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