Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges
and West Coast Beaches
Bob Harvey
Photographs by Ted Scott
New edition available September 2008
First published in November 1998, this book has become established as the guide to this much-loved region. It has now been updated, and is set to remain both the most beautiful and most useful book on the region. Tried and tested walks, interesting facts, history, nature, geography and geology, together with great stories of fierce inter-tribal warfare and the pioneering settlers, are all here, accompanied by a vast number of superb photographs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Harvey is the mayor of Waitakere City, Auckland. He is also the author of Rolling Thunder.
Reviews
'A great enthralling ramble along the West Coast, well written and beautifully produced.’ Warwick Roger, Metro
'Bob Harvey takes us on a personal odyssey to the places he knows and loves. The untamed coast is a place of powerful evolutionary and geological forces of nature in the raw. The narrative is enlivened and illustrated by Ted Scott’s photographs and others from historic collections which add a fascinating dimension to the text.’ Gary Taylor, Forest & Bird
'The book is well set out, with clear little coloured maps for each area and every now and then a two-page spread of something different. It’s a hard book to put down simply because one cannot tire of those views of bush and beach and restless sea, and wherever the eye falls the reading is easy.’ Nelson Mail
SPECIFICATIONS
Size: 286 x 210 mm
Format: paperback with flaps
Extent: 208 pages
over 300 photographs, 9 maps, track descriptions
Weight: 800 gms
ISBN: 978-0-908988-11-2
