Green Sea
Lost in the New Zealand Bush
$31.20
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2026
Summary
John Summers’ worst nightmare is getting lost in the bush.
He has always carefully – myopically, even – followed the track. Death lurks at the edge of his fear, as well as cold, hunger, loneliness and even humiliation. But what is the experience of being lost in the New Zealand bush actually like?
Summers talks to those who have survived – from a man who was found near death after 29 days in Kahurangi National Park to a woman who covered herself with earth to stay warm in the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923243 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923243 |
| Author: | John Summers |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 138mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
‘A compelling investigation into human vulnerability in the face of nature’s indifference. Haunting, absorbing, and deeply close to home.’ —Naomi Arnold, author of Northbound
John Summers
John Summers is the author of The Commercial Hotel (2021) and The Mermaid Boy (2015). His writing has also appeared in Sport, North & South, New Zealand Geographic, Sunday Star-Times, Landfall, New Zealand Listener, Newsroom, and The Spinoff.
He was the winner of the 2022 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Imaginative Prose, a finalist in the Voyager Media Awards, and winner of the nonfiction category in the 2016 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards.
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