L. Cockayne
Published: 2016-10-19
Total Pages: 206
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Excerpt from New Zealand Plants: And Their Story Lying isolated from neighbouring land-masses far out in the broad Pacific, New zealand Offered conditions for plant-life different from those Of most other regions. Its area, greater by far than that of any oceanic group Of islands, is sufficient to have allowed the development of a rich vegetation made up of many species. The land of the Maori and as a poet has called our land, has long been famous from both the ethnological and zoological standpoints. The remarkable race Of aborigines, with their interesting manners and customs, is known far and wide. Scientific men the world over, and many of the general public, for that matter, have an acquaintance more or less intimate with the giant birds Of a former age, and their fast vanishing relatives, the kiwis of today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.