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Aug 31, 2024 | 
waikatotimes.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Share with friends A dairy farmer, truck driver, boat builder-turned-scientist and protector of the country’s rivers and lakes.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Share with friends Tapuae-o-Uenuku and Te Ao Whēkere were the mountains climbed – but there were a few in between.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Share with friends The Kaikōura Coast Track, one of the country’s longest-running private walks, is celebrating its 30th year. The track has survived a major quake and the tourism slump of the pandemic.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Illustrator Desmond Bovey’s first book, Tongariro National Park: An artist’s field guide, was inspired by a profound encounter with a kārearea (New Zealand falcon) after a three-decade absence from New Zealand. The resulting collection of 400 paintings depicts the park in a uniquely personal way. Was illustration always going to be your career path? I have always enjoyed drawing. As a kid I used to draw in the dirt around our house, and never stopped.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Vanessa Wells has been making films for over 20 years. She’s also a veteran of three trips to Antarctica, and can legitimately claim to have a polar passion. She’s currently working on The Climate Canary, a documentary about the global significance of the frozen continent. She believes that science and art, interwoven in the medium of film, just might make a difference. What drew you to filmmaking?
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
medium.com | Alistair Hughes
An anxious man walks into an unexpectedly crowded gathering and stays there for far longer than he feels comfortable — and not because he’s “managing” or because he’s “feeling brave,” but because he’s afraid to tell his date how he’s feeling, afraid to ruin the party, afraid to offend the hosts by leaving, afraid to socialize, afraid of what people will think of him, and a great many other things besides. So he smiles through the discomfort because the show must go on.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
medium.com | Alistair Hughes
The origin of an anxious, depressed, and brilliantly broken humanI understand that I was a happy child, initially at least. Never one to cry or complain, always eager to learn. My earliest memory, from about age three, is of my mother and I practicing flashcards. I had learned to talk, write, and read well ahead of other children my age, but despite this, I was an outcast amongst my extended family. To my mother’s family, I was nothing but the “bastard” son of a high school dropout.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
wildernessmag.co.nz | Alistair Hughes
Naturalist Robert Vennell loves the outdoors so much that even trying to pin him down for an interview is like trying to glimpse an elusive forest-dwelling species. When he is not ‘outdoors’, Vennell can be found at Auckland Museum passing on his knowledge of natural history. He has also written the lavishly illustrated The Forgotten Forest: In search of the lost plants and fungi of Aotearoa, his third book. What led you to become a natural science curator?
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
booktrailers4kidsandya.wordpress.com | Fred Van Gessel |Alistair Hughes |Ned Barraud |Desna Wallace
I must begin with a bit of a confession. It has been awhile since blogging. Life has just been a little hectic but I’m hopefully back on track. There are also not so many book trailers being made these days so I am contemplating changing the blog name. Feel free to email me what you think. Thanks for reading my reviews. It is so pleasing to see New Zealand publishers providing more and more non-fiction books for children.
