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The 'mighty totara' is one of New Zealand's most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand can be told through totara. Simpson tells that story like nobody else could. In words and pictures, through waka and leaves, farmers and carvers, he takes us deep inside the trees: their botany and evolution, their role in Maori life and lore, and their current status in New Zealand's environment and culture. (Books in Print)
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Contents: 1. Totara in the natural world -- 2. How totara grows -- 3. Where totara lives and who lives with it -- 4. Te mauri o te totara : how Maori value totara -- 5. Nga mahi o te totara : using totara wood -- 6. Te kiri o Tane : the bark of totara -- 7. Pakeha discover totara -- 8. Totara creates a nation -- 9. Where have all the totara gone? -- 10. How totara is (and isn't) being protected.
