Book launches
Penguins of New Zealand launch imminent
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Penguins of New
Zealand, written by LSD
with photographs by Rod Morris, is about to be
launched by the publishers New Holland. Part guide
book, part overview on penguins, it has been written
with the wildlife enthusiast in mind.
Ants of New Zealand launched
Thursday 06 March 2008
Last
night LSD was on the other side of the microphone as
he launched Warwick Don's book, Ants of New
Zealand, at a function held
in the atrium of the Otago Museum. Surprinzingly,
this is the first book ever published on New
Zealand's representatives of this important animal
group. LSD chided Warwick, a rugby fanatic, for
seemingly making his collections at places around New
Zealand that coincided with the locations of rugby
grounds. He went on to describe the book as
representing a lifetime's work and, with a nod to
Grahame Sydney, Christian Barnard and Rudyard
Kipling, LSD praised Warwick Don for his book – which
he said could be regarded as a gift to the nation, a
true "stepping stone".
Filmmaking Book launched
Friday 22 February 2008
Graeme established the Natural History Unit of TVNZ in Dunedin in 1977 with Robert Brown (pictured in the blue shirt) and Neil Harraway (who was also at the launch). In many ways this book represents the great-great-grandchild of something he started over three decades ago.
He said he hoped the book would be adopted as a text by all filmmaking courses in New Zealand.