Author(s): Mike D. Wilcox

NZ Non-Fiction | NZ Scenic/Travel | Flora & Fauna

This 192 page book is fully illustrated in colour and provides a comprehensive account of Rangitoto Island. It covers flowering plants, conifers, ferns and fern allies, mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and algae, and includes species lists, along with accounts of the geology, history, vegetation ecology, and animal life. Published by the Auckland Botanical Society, the book is the result of intensive field work and research by a distinguished team of contributors, and embodies the findings of past researchers on the origins, biodiversity and ecology of Auckland's unique volcanic island.