Neville Peat has been visiting Stewart Island for recreation and research for more than 40 years. He is the author of two other books about the island: Stewart Island: The last refuge (1991) and Rakiura Heritage (2010). This book was originally published as Stewart Island: A Rakiura ramble in 2000. In 2007 Neville was awarded New Zealand’s largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea, which includes Foveaux Strait. He lives on the Otago Peninsula, Dunedin. www.nevillepeatsnewzealand.com
'... an excellent record of what makes the island special' – Gillian Vine, Southland Times
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