Authors

Ross Lockyer, now in his late 70s, is retired and living with his wife Lestari near Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, in the far north of New Zealand. Friends have been telling him for over 30 years that he should write a book about his life and adventures in the forestry industry and the jungles of Asia and the Pacific. In 2013 he put pen to paper and started writing - "the book". Nine years later that one book has transmogrified into five books. The first two books "An Accidental Bushman" and "Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries" have been edited and published and have sold some hundreds of copies. The third book "The River is my Highway" was published in November 2021 and is now available for purchase. Book four is now being edited and will be published later this year (2022). Book five has been completed and is now being pre-edited and prepared for editing and publishing in 2023. Ross spent much of his life living and working in the forestry and logging industry in remote locations in Asia and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya/Indonesian West Papua, Borneo, Sumatra, Burma, Thailand, Philippines, Kiribati and others). With a gung-ho approach to life (and his own safety), Ross threw himself into his work and immersed himself in the local cultures and communities wherever he went, learning the languages and customs that helped him fit in and do his job. He had many hair-raising adventures and close scrapes, and he encountered many amazing people wherever he went.

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Bruce Logan, after a long period overseas, began writing opinion pieces for The New Zealand Herald, The Press, The Otago Daily Times and other newspapers. He has written two novels (as Alexander Logan), Two Women: Two Worlds and The Reluctant Assassin, and several monographs about education and related issues. Living and teaching in New Zealand, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia, his experience in education has been extensive, from teacher of English and Classics to Head of Department and Principal. Bruce was cofounder and first Director of the Maxim Institute.

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Jessica Long is a dynamic speaker with a passion to help others persevere in the face of difficulty, embrace hope, and run their own race. She and her husband, Pete, enjoy boating with family and friends on Table Rock Lake. They live in Branson, Missouri, where they serve on the worship team at Grace Community Assembly.

Chris Long was born in 1991 and grew up two days' hike from the nearest road, at Gorge River on the wild West Coast of New Zealand. After seventeen years living with his family in remote isolation, he left home to attend school in Wanaka. On completing his education, he set off to explore as much of the world as possible, travelling to sixty countries on six continents and taking a variety of jobs, including teaching extreme survival skills in Antarctica, working as a dog musher with huskies in arctic Norway, and crewing on a small yacht sailing through the Northwest Passage. Chris's father, Robert 'Beansprout' Long, and mother, Catherine Stewart, each published best selling memoirs, A Life on Gorge River (2010) and A Wife on Gorge River (2012). This is Chris's first book.

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Dr Terrence M Loomis is an economic anthropologist and independent researcher specialising in the political economy of the oil and gas industry. He was Professor of Development Studies at Waikato University before becoming a senior policy advisor under successive National and Labour governments. His 2017 publication, Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand (Lexington Books) was written while he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Victoria University’s Institute of Governance and Policy Studies. Dr Loomis serves as coordinator of the Fossil Fuels Aotearoa Research Network (FFARN).