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Obituary — Geoff Park

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Geoff Park (1946-2009) I heard about Geoff Park long before I actually met him. David Young and Peter Horsley had told me about him, so I already knew about his energy and passion for plants and landscape, and the unusual…

Tagged with: Anne French, Geoff Park, Issue 86, Winter 2009
Posted in Obituaries

The sins of our fathers, Brian Turner

Posted on September 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Geoff Park Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734573 In his excellent address to the New Zealand Landscape conference in 2003, included in Theatre Country under the title “A Moment in History”, Geoff Park…

Tagged with: Brian Turner, Geoff Park, Issue 75, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

Rearranging the found, Mark Amery

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

Shifting Nature: Photographs by Wayne Barrar Wayne Barrar, with an essay by Geoff Park Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276057 Chris Booth: Sculpture in Europe, Australia and New Zealand Edward Lucie-Smith, Ken Scarlett and Gregory O’Brien Godwit, $49.95, ISBN 1869620739…

Tagged with: Chris Booth, Edward Lucie-Smith, Geoff Park, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 52, Ken Scarlett, Mark Amery, Otago University Press, Summer 2002, Wayne Barrar
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review

NZ Pastoral, Geoff Park

Posted on March 26, 2000 by NZ Books

Out of Town: Writing from the New Zealand Countryside ed John Gordon Reed, $34.95, ISBN 0 908704 95 X An Australian friend of mine, an anthropologist, has a particular thing about “country”. From her studies with Aboriginal people, and the…

Tagged with: Geoff Park, Issue 42, John Gordon, Reed
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology