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Reaping what you sow, James Beattie
A History of Gardening in New Zealand Bee Dawson Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621568 Published on glossy paper with quality full-colour images, A History of Gardening in New Zealand is a most attractive book. Bee Dawson provides a whistle-stop overview…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Bee Dawson, Godwit, Issue 93, James Beattie
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Over there, Tony Simpson
New Zealand and the Second World War Ian McGibbon Hodder Moa Beckett, $40.00, ISBN 1869589548 A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 1869505050 The Desert Railway Brendan Judd Penguin, $29.95,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Bee Dawson, Brendan Judd, Christopher Pugsley, HarperCollins, Hodder Moa Beckett, Ian McGibbon, Issue 65, Jim Rolfe, Megan Hutching, Penguin, Reed, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
They also serve, Katie Pickles
Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two ed Jim Sullivan HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950416X High Flyers: Celebrating the Extraordinary Women of the RNZAF 1977-2002 Bee Dawson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018221 Being in the military…
Tagged with: Bee Dawson, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Jim Sullivan, Katie Pickles, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Out of the picture, Lydia Wevers
Lady Travellers: The Tourists of Early New Zealand Bee Dawson Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0141004150 Lady Travellers is a successor to Bee Dawson’s Lady Painters, which appeared in 1999, and makes me wonder if there’s a series planned – Lady…
Tagged with: Bee Dawson, December 2001, Issue 51, Lydia Wevers, Penguin Books
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
“Plant imperialism”, Lydia Wevers
Lady Painters: the flower painters of early New Zealand Bee Dawson Penguin, $69.95, ISBN 0 670 88651 3 In 1981 the Royal Commonwealth Society disposed of 40 “exquisite” watercolours, found bound into a volume of New Zealand Company papers entitled…
Tagged with: Bee Dawson, Issue 41, Lydia Wevers, Penguin
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review