“I think I am becoming a New Zealander”: Letters of J C Beaglehole Tim Beaglehole (ed) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739025 For someone such as myself, this is an engrossing book. I had met J C Beaglehole (his preferred…
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Reconsidering a juvenile critique, Jock Phillips
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, J C Beaglehole, Jock Phillips, Tim Beaglehole, Victoria University Press
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
A life lived to the full, Tom Brooking
A Life of J C Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar Tim Beaglehole Victoria University Press, $69.95, ISBN 0864735227 John Cawte Beaglehole remains New Zealand’s best-known and most highly regarded historian internationally. None of the numerous Cook biographies published since his magisterial…
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Tagged with: Issue 76, J C Beaglehole, Summer 2006, Tim Beaglehole, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Off the map, Tim Beaglehole
The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman Grahame Anderson Te Papa Press, published in association with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), $49.95, ISBN 0909010757 The origins of this fascinating book…
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Tagged with: Abel Tasman, December 2001, Grahame Anderson, Issue 51, New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), Royal Netherlands Embassy, Te Papa Press, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Open letters, Tim Beaglehole
Dear Peggy: Letters to Margaret Garland from her New Zealand Friends Peter and Dianne Beatson (ed) Sociology Department, Massey University $35.00 ISBN 0 95836254 8 Peggy Garland came out to Wellington in 1947 with a young family and an unsatisfactory,…
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Tagged with: Dianne Beatson, Issue 35, Margaret Garland, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review