Vanishing IceWritten by Lynley Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape. Enormous rivers of ice once flowed out onto the Canterbury Plains, stretched beyond the current West Coast shore of Te Waipounamu South Island, and spread down the slopes of the volcanoes in central Te Ika a Maui North Island. These glaciers of past ice