This book is a collection of photographs of New Zealand's stunning landscape and essays by photographer Declan O'Neill. The magnificent vistas made famous by The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit are captured in a unique and personal way by a photographer who, in a series of short essays, recounts how his journey into the landscape turned into a different sort of journey - one which unlocked a way of expressing complex and deep emotions which had lain buried for decades.