Quarantine!
Subtitle: protecting New Zealand at the border
By: Gavin McLean & Tim Shoebridge
Contributors: Shoebridge, Tim, 1979-
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781877372827
Subjects: Biosecurity; Pest introduction; Quarantine; Border security; Prevention; History
Other titles: Protecting New Zealand at the border
Description: "Every day, all over the world, quarantine officials screen international passengers and cargo and every week a border protection story is in the news. As a group of islands for which biosecurity is vital, New Zealand provides an ideal focus for this book, the world's first national history of quarantine."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.