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Major Robert Adams Wilson DSO was a Rangitikei sawmiller (MSD Speirs), dairy farmer and breeder (Mahoe Friesian Stud) who served with distinction in France during WWI but his major contribution was to ornithogy.  He made numerous trips to NZ's offshore islands and wrote the classic Bird Islands of New Zealand, and is also remembered for his deerstalking memoir My Stalking Memories and his war history A Two Years' Interlude.  This biography combines material from his major books with family and local history.    

A second collection of Golden Bay poetry by the author of The Little Ships (2001).People and places, reflections on the land and its history, notes on bird and bush, love songs from a life time on the land. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches.