Rob Lucas

An ecological field guide to New Zealand's native forests. In one volume, it provides identification for a range of common plants (including trees and shrubs, vines and epiphytes, ground plants, fungi, mosses, and liverworts) and animals (birds, reptiles, insects, and mammals). It also offers insights into the interactions between them: the role of birds in the life cycle of plants,...

There are many guides to trees, birds, and insects, but nothing that puts them all together in one handy book that can be placed in a backpack and taken into the bush. From Weta To Kauri includes full-colour photographs and examines the bush in layers—starting at the forest floor, concentrating on things you can see easily, and moving up to...