At Home on the Road Jill Malcolm New Holland, $24.95, ISBN 1877246658 Southern Journeys: South Island People and Places Roy Sinclair Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941439X There is a kea in my garden. When I hang out the washing, a…
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Awestruck at Otira, Neville Bennett
Tagged with: Issue 56, Jill Malcolm, Neville Bennett, New Holland, Random House, Roy Sinclair, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Spying and all that, Neville Bennett
Seeing Red — undercover in 1950s New Zealand George Fraser Dunmore Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864692552 From 1953 to 1956 the Canadian authorities posted E H Norman as their high commissioner in Wellington. They were “hiding” him in an unimportant post from…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Dunmore Press, George Fraser, Issue 25, Neville Bennett
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Truculent non-globalisers, Neville Bennett
Now for Spinoza, Neville Bennett
Neville Bennett: Signalling a trout rush
Trophy Trout Bob South Viking Press, $34.95 Some years ago huge untapped resources of crayfish were discovered in the Chathams. A rush developed and the resource was raped. It was merely another rush, in a national history which has seen…
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Tagged with: Bob South, Issue 13, Neville Bennett, Viking Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
And a partridge (or not), Neville Bennett
Science is wonderful. Only this week I hear some clever Americans have transplanted a gene from an Antarctic fish into a tomato. Apparently we will not get a tomato with scales or fins but one that is not frost tender.…
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