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Lagoon-level view, Martin Sutton
In Polynesia Antony Alpers Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161802 For over forty years, Antony Alpers has given us books which all share as their main themes the diametrically opposed but often intersecting realms of myth and reality, fact and fiction.…
Tagged with: Antony Alpers, Autumn 2001, Hazard Press, Issue 53, Martin Sutton
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Overlapping associations, Tom Larkin
Japan and New Zealand, 150 Years ed Roger Peren New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Massey University, in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, [not for sale], ISBN 0958350574 In 1878, Asajiro Noda, the eight-year-old son…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 46, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Roger Peren, Tom Larkin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
An indispensable resource, Alan Wells
Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance Mervyn McLean Auckland University Press, $79.95, ISBN 1 86940 212 X A companion volume to the same author’s Maori Music 1996: reviewed in our March 1998 issue), Mervyn McLean’s Weavers of Song…
Tagged with: Alan Wells, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Mervyn McLean
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Beyond the tapa curtain, David Eggleton
Speaking in Colour Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira Te Papa Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 90901044 7 The country of the tourist brochures is, as Nadine Gordimer has suggested, always someone else’s country: unreal in its airbrushed perfection; its beckoning…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 34, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Sean Mallon
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific
Miscellany: Short reviews, Dale Williams
Godwits Return, Margaret Clark (ed), Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 New Zealanders are a restless lot – the more job training we get, the more likely we are to pack up and swim in bigger ponds overseas. Sometimes we come back.…
How misleading it all is, K R Howe
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, $34.95 The barrage of criticism that greeted this book in New Zealand needs to be ignored. The exception taken to Paul Theroux’s acerbic comments about New Zealanders and…
Tagged with: Hamish Hamilton, Issue 7, K R Howe, Paul Theroux, Summer 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
June 1992: Music and the arts, House Notes
The Great New Zealand Songbook Les Cleveland, Godwit, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 Les Cleveland’s friendly and informal approach illuminates this collection of 60 New Zealand songs from early ballads to goldrush classics and Ruru Karaitiana’s ‘Blue Smoke’. An excellent introduction is…
Tagged with: Godwit, Harrison Bray, Issue 5, John M Jennings, Les Cleveland, Mike Harding, Nota Bene Music, Philip Norman, Ross Harvey, School of Music, The Canterbury Series of Bibliographies, University of Canterbury, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology
From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson
New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review