Author at Port: Neville Peat Visits the Library

Dunedin (Friday 5 November 2010) – Local writer and photographer, Neville Peat will be recounting tales of shipwrecks, perfect storms and bizarre sea creatures at Port Chalmers Library on Thursday, 18 November.

Peat’s depth and breadth of knowledge provides a brilliant insight for anyone, from historians and fishermen, artists and adventurers – and anyone with a passion for our wild environment.

His latest book, The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean, traces the history of a sea that has a distinct life of its own, both creating and destroying the people who live alongside it and venture into its waters.

This must-see talk explores this complex stretch of water in breathtaking detail – from the weather systems and ocean currents that bring us our beloved crayfishing industry to the people who have braved its ferocious reputation with little more than a sense of adventure and a kiwi ‘can-do’ attitude.

The ambience of the Port Chalmers Library, in the beautifully restored Town Hall, echoes the community’s history and affinity with the ocean.

Neville Peat wrote shipping news for the Argus newspaper in Cape Town and Dunedin's Evening Star in the 1970s and, since 1990, has worked as a study leader and lecturer aboard expedition ships visiting New Zealand waters, including the sub-Antarctic region. An Otago regional councillor for nine years, he has long been involved in environmental politics. In 2007, he was awarded New Zealand's largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship. The Tasman is his fortieth book.

Author at Port: Neville Peat

Thursday 18 November, 7.00pm

Port Chalmers Library

Bookings essential: 03 474 3690 or library@dcc.govt.nz

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