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Permolat and dogbox bivs, Hannah McGregor

Posted on August 31, 2015 by NZ Books

Tramping: A New Zealand History
Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean
Craig Potton, $70.00,
ISBN 9781927213230

Tramping: A New Zealand History travels lightly through terrain which will feel familiar to many of its readers, the extended family of woollen-sock wearing, pack-hauling, bushwhackers. These people exist in sufficient numbers in this country to ensure this history will eventually become a collectors’ item. To obtain it, it will become necessary to tramp well into the back shelves of second-hand bookshops.

Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Craig Potton, Hannah McGregor, Issue 111, Shaun Barnett, Spring 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Curiosa and curiosa, Dale Williams

Posted on December 1, 2012 by NZ Books

The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551130 Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517686 The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to…

Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Gill, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Dale Williams, Debbie Cowens, Friedrich Krull, Issue 100, Katherine Mansfield, Matt Cowens, Summer 2012
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

With backpack and library card, Chris Maclean

Posted on March 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the 20th Century Kirstie Ross Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 978186904246 If I have read about 50 pages and still not been drawn into an author’s world, then I usually put the book…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Chris Maclean, Issue 85, Kirstie Ross
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

A truly adventurous coot, Brian Turner

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

John Pascoe Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing in association with The Whitcombe Press, $59.95, ISBN 0473094436 When I was a runty little joker, I often heard my father’s mother, Liz, describe people as “silly buggers”. John Pascoe would have…

Tagged with: Brian Turner, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 64, John Pascoe, Summer 2003, The Whitcombe Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Through unfamiliar waters, Chris Maclean

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark Neville Peat Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877135577 Two centuries ago, sealers and whalers came to New Zealand to hunt marine mammals for their oil and skins. Millions were slaughtered, most of them on…

Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 50, Longacre Press, Neville Peat, October 2001
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

Flagship for conservation, Neville Peat

Posted on June 25, 2000 by NZ Books

Kapiti Chris Maclean Whitcombe Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 473 06166 X A hilly chip off the old block, Kapiti Island lies alluringly close to the mainland – a Kapiti Coast landmark with a reputation considerably out of proportion to its…

Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 43, Neville Peat, Whitcombe Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review