{"product_id":"green-sea","title":"Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJohn Summers’ worst nightmare is getting lost in the bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eHe has always carefully – myopically, even – followed the track. Death lurks at the edge of his fear, as well as cold, hunger, loneliness and even humiliation. But what is the experience of being lost in the New Zealand bush actually like?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eSummers talks to those who have survived – from a man who was found near death after 29 days in Kahurangi National Park to a woman who covered herself with earth to stay warm in the Orongorongo Valley. He explores what ‘lost’ really means, a metaphor for everything from addiction to a midlife crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003ePart reportage, history and personal reflection, \u003ci\u003eGreen Sea \u003c\/i\u003elooks closely at what keeps us going through the tangle of ordinary life – and at the mercies others show us when we feel most alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p5\"\u003e‘A compelling investigation into human vulnerability in the face of nature’s indifference. Haunting, absorbing, and deeply close to home.’ —Naomi Arnold, author of \u003ci\u003eNorthbound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p5\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Summers\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Commercial \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotel \u003c\/i\u003e(2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Mermaid Boy \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). His writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eSport\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South, New Zealand Geographic, Sunday Star-Times, Landfall, New Zealand Listener, Newsroom \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the winner of the 2022 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Imaginative Prose, a finalist in the Voyager Media Awards, and winner of the nonfiction category in the 2016 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52298839064887,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923243GreenSea.jpg?v=1780298168","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/green-sea","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}