Authors

MARTIN HILL is an award-winning designer and artist who has worked in the UK, Kenya, Australia, and has lived in New Zealand since 1974. He became an environmental artist in 1992. PHILIPPA JONES studied English and Art History at The University of Auckland and Victoria University. She has worked as a weaver and writer. She has two adult children. Hill and Jones have collaborated to make land art since they met as climbers in 1994. Hill’s photographs of their ephemeral sculptures have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, and Europe. Their work has been awarded at Pingyao International Photography Festival China, Arte Laguna Venice, and received a FAPA international award. In 2007 a book of their sculptures, Earth to Earth, was published internationally. They live and work in Wānaka, New Zealand.

Steven Loveridge is a historian whose research focuses on governance, security intelligence and war and society. Richard S. Hill is the author of four books on the history of policing in New Zealand and two on Crown- Maori relations in the twentieth century (including State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy and Maori and the State, Victoria University Press, 2004, 2009).

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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.