16 Sep 2023

Peter Butler: Night Tribe

From Saturday Morning, 11:40 am on 16 September 2023

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Nelson-based author and entrepreneur Peter Butler's fourth book is Night Tribe, a young adult novel set in the Kahurangi National Park.

Peter's first job in Golden Bay was working on the Heaphy Track for the Forest Service. Today he's Chair of the Farewell Wharariki Health Post Nature Trust, helping to restore 12,000 hectares at the North West tip of the South Island.

Peter lived for many years on a bush block near the Heaphy Track, where he still grows horopito.  

He is the author of two non-fiction titles: Opium & Gold and Life & Times of Te Rauparaha. His first novel was Gravel Roads.