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Colliding pasts, Lydia Wevers
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds Anne Salmond Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408657 The cover blurb suggests Tears of Rangi is Anne Salmond’s “most ambitious book to date”, and in many respects this is the case, since in…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Bad luck, bad language, bad management, Bronwyn Dalley
Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas Anne Salmond Viking, $65.00, ISBN 9780670075560 One of the prefaces in the late Greg Dening’s Mr Bligh’s Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) is written at the “bicentenary…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Autumn 2012, Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 97, Viking, William Bligh
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Innocence, disruption, death, Tom Brooking
Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti Anne Salmond Viking, $65.00, ISBN 9780670073962 The publication of a new book by Anne Salmond is always an occasion worth celebrating and savouring. Aphrodite’s Island, about the European discovery of, and encounter with,…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Issue 88, Summer 2009, Tom Brooking, Viking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Spot on the sun, David Hill
The Transit of Venus Marilyn Head (ed) Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 978095826972 A few years back, I had to review a self-published New Zealand novel. It was seriously rotten, and I wrote that it “tried to be bad, bold and…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Autumn 2008, Awa Press, David Hill, Duncan Steel, Hamish Campbell, Issue 81, Marilyn Head, Paul Callaghan, Peter Adds, Richard Hall
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
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
Where history is made, Bernard Kernot
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815 Anne Salmond Viking $69.95 ISBN 0 67087787 5 The publication in 1991 of Salmond’s Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 marked a major re-interpretation of first contacts between…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Bernard Kernot, Issue 35, Viking
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Ancient meetings of the past, Bernard Kernot
Two Worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 Anne Salmond, Viking, Auckland, 1991, $69.95 First meetings of Maori and Europeans varied widely in their intensity and outcome. The four dealt with in Two Worlds include Tasman’s brief but disastrous…
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