Huts - Untold Stories from Back-Country New Zealand

Canterbury University Press, 2010. Inscription inside.
Huts is a celebration of the endurance of New Zealand's back-country huts and the men who built and lived in them. It is a fascinating look at the place of these iconic dwellings in New Zealand?s social and mountain history.
There are over 1500 huts in New Zealand ? an extraordinarily large number. Mark Pickering focuses on 15 historic huts, but many others besides are referred to. Most of the huts still do the job they were built for, whether it?s a pit-sawn deer cullers? hut in Urewera National Park or a tiny skiers? shack in the Craigieburn Range. If huts could talk they could in fact tell the whole history of the back country...