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Rediscovering the great white discoverer, Jock Phillips
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond Allen Lane, $59.95, ISBN 0713996617 I will not forget reading Anne Salmond’s Two Worlds. I was on holiday at Tolaga Bay. Between walks to Cook’s Cove…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Anne Salmond, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Forging an ideology, Philip Temple
Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders. From the 1880s to the Year 2000 James Belich Allen Lane/ Penguin, $59.95, ISBN 0713991720 One person’s “History of the New Zealanders” over a period of 120 years can never be complete,…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Issue 52, James Belich, Penguin, Philip Temple, Summer 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Mything our myths, Miles Fairburn
A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century James Belich Allen Lane, Penguin, $59.95 ISBN 07139 91712 Writing a general history about New Zealand is an extraordinarily daunting and difficult task and…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, James Belich, Miles Fairburn, Penguin Books
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review