Making Sheep Country: MT Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781869404857)

From the 1840s through World War I, the South Island of New Zealand was transformed as large tracts of land were claimed, native vegetation was burned, and large-scale sheep farming was established for wool and, later, meat production. This record focuses on one case study in particular--John Barton Acland and the Mt Peel Station in South Canterbury, New Zealand--to explain how the pastoralists modified their environment. Providing ample insight into the farmers' world, from the sheep they bred to the rabbits, droughts, and floods they fought, this history is a sweeping portrait of the economic and ecological transformation of New Zealand.

Author: Robert Peden
ISBN-10: 1869404858
ISBN-13: 9781869404857
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2011
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.01lbs