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Author's Notes
During
my early childhood I became fascinated and enthralled by the native
forest, streams, lakes, and especially the thermal activity I saw during a
number of day trips to Rotorua made with my parents from our home near
Tauranga. I was also intrigued by snippets of information about the
Tarawera eruption. These experiences and stories triggered a continuing
interest in the New Zealand thermal region, and in recent years not only
has my professional interest as a physicist become focussed on the natural
behaviour of geothermal systems but also, with many other people, I have
become deeply involved in efforts to ensure that a representative
selection of New Zealand's unique and outstanding geothermal features are
preserved. Tarawera has its origins in my childhood fascination; it is
built on nearly forty years' systematic collecting of relevant historical
information; and I would like to believe that my scientific training has
enhanced the necessary (but brief) consideration given within the book to
geological and physical processes involved in the central
events. 
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