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Gregory Hill is a former principal player in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Following his career in music, he indulged his secret passion for long-distance train travel, resulting in this epic journey.

Les Hill is a retired school teacher. He lives on a two-acre block close to Hokitika with panoramic views of the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea. He enjoys life in the outdoors - trout fishing, whitebaiting, sea fishing and hunting. He always carries a camera. He is the author or co-author of seven previous, highly acclaimed books on trout fishing including The Artful Science of Trout Fishing and A Stroll Through Brown Trout Country. Les was a regular contributor to Fish and Game magazine and has had numerous articles and photographs published in books and magazines both in NZ and abroad.

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David Hill is a reviewer, fiction writer, playwright and children’s writer. Born in Napier, he spent fourteen years teaching before writing full-time. His many published books range from studies on poetry, to teenage fiction, for which he has received numerous prizes. His first young adult novel won the 1994 Times Educational Supplement Award for Special Needs. He won the 2002 Children's Literature Foundation Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book, the 2003 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal, the 2013 NZ Post Junior Fiction Award, and the 2013 LIANZA Librarian’s Choice Award. Hill is available to visit schools through the Writers in Schools programme, as well as lead Professional Development sessions for teachers. Bio and photograph courtesy of Read NZ.

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The Hill family's involvement with the story of Richard Henry began during a sailing holiday in Dusky Sound in 1974. Their 17-foot Aston longboat, named after Richard Henry's trusty old dinghy Putangi, was lifted over the mountains by helicopter into the Vancouver Arm of Breaksea Sound. With their two children, then aged ten and five, the Hills spent three weeks sailing among the starkly beautiful fiords and islands of Dusky and Breaksea Sounds and on the formidable Acheron Passage. In this adventure, Susanne and John Hill used Richard Henry's reports to the Department of Lands and Survey as their guide. They soon began to feel great admiration for the man and his trailblazing work and subsequently spent twelve years researching and writing a biography, Richard Henry of Resolution Island (1987, 2015). The Hills felt it was important that Henry's many letters about his life in Dusky as New Zealand's first wildlife ranger and his other written material should be collated and published to put his pioneering conservation work on public record. Susanne began initial work on a second book in 1988, however for various reasons it was put away and only after a long hiatus and Susanne's death in 2014, did John and his daughter Victoria Jaenecke decide to continue working on Letters of a Naturalist and bring the presentation of this exceptional man's written legacy to fruition.

Keith Hill is the award-winning author of The New Mysticism, The God Revolution and Striving To Be Human. This book is one of a series that presents classic spiritual texts reworked to inspire today's seekers.

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PETER HILLARY is a philanthropist and the author of six previous books, including one other children's book. He has visited the Himalayas over 80 times, including climbing Mt Everest twice. Peter's father Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mt Everest in 1953 with his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay. ANT SANG is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. He is the author of graphic novels The Dharma Punks, Shaolin Burning, and co-author of Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas. His work has also featured on television in the animated series bro'Town.

Harold Hillman PhD is the managing director of Sigmoid Curve Consulting Group. He coaches business leaders and executive teams, guiding them to be more focused in their leadership and teaching them how to inspire others toward greater possibilities. Prior to Sigmoid Curve, Harold served in senior executive roles with Fonterra, Prudential Financial, and Amoco Corporation. His first book, The Impostor Syndrome, was Whitcoulls Business Book of the Year in 2013. His second book, Fitting In Standing Out, was followed by a TEDx Talk, both of which reinforced the importance of authentic leadership.