Mantle of the Skies - The Southern Alps of New Zealand

Whitcombe and Tombs, 1973. Ex-library with the usual stamps.

'Mantle of the Skies' is a free translation of the Maori name for New Zealand. Like other Maori names, it conveys a good deal more than the rather prosaic accepted name. It adds a touch of poetry and in that way comes a little closer to to expressing the essence of a very long, snow-clad mountain chain with its host of subsidary ranges and jumbled foothills.
It makes a good title for this book by one who has sought to impart something of his own deeply felt love of these mountains both in words and and in a fine selection of the photographs he has taken on his many trips 'into the hills'. - from the dust jacket.