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Because it’s still there, Geoff Chapple
Everest – Summit of Achievement Stephen Venables Allen & Unwin, $79.95, ISBN 1741140668 Everest – 50 Years on Top of the World George Band Collins, $49.95, ISBN 0007147481 High Adventure: Our Ascent of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary Allen & Unwin,…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 2003, Christine Gee, Collins, Corgi Books, Garry Weare, Geoff Chapple, George Band, Issue 61, Margaret Gee, Rider, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stephen Venables
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A slimming diet, Rose Lovell-Smith
Scarface and the Angel William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135445 Afterwards David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 090878354X Twenty-Four Hours Margaret Mahy Collins, $16.95, ISBN 0007113722 Leon Frances Cherry Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0908783582 Here’s a batch of four…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Collins, David Hill, Frances Cherry, Issue 49, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, Rose Lovell-Smith, William Taylor
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Mything the point, Piet de Jong
The Cross-Leased Chardonnay Cellphone Paradise John Ruck Collins, $24.95 ISBN 1869502000 Hey, hey, hey — a 90’s sequel to Austin Mitchell’s Half Gallon, Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise. I wave the attractive cover around the office and people laugh at the…
Unacknowledged legislators, Diane Hebley
Zigzag William Taylor (ed), Penguin, $19.95 Slide the Corner Fleur Beale, Ashton Scholastic Take Me to Your Leaders Gaelyn Gordon, Tui Harper/Collins, $14.95 Those who support New Zealand literature for children and young adults have always claimed the justification for…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Collins, Fleur Beale, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Tui Harper, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Overcoming entomo‑ignorance, Dale Williams
A Houseful of Strangers Patrick Dale, Collins, $19.95 (139 pp) Insects’ lib – the author attempts to defend the smaller occupants of our home environment against what Ruud Kleinpaste calls ‘entomo‑ignorance’. Subtitled ‘Living with the common creatures of the New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Collins, Dale Williams, Diggeress Te Kanawa, I A Hood, Issue 7, Olive Dunn, Patrick Dale, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Maritime and general short reviews, Gavin McLean
Waitemata Ferry Tales Sally Fodie, Collins, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Sally Fodie was the first woman master of an Auckland harbour ferry. Waitemata Ferry Tales, her short collection of nautical anecdotes, shows that it was not easy to elbow her way…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Collins, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Gavin McLean, Gillian Polson, Godwit, James McNeish, Jim Tucker, John McIndoe, John Patterson, Longman Paul, Richard Rudman, Sally Fodie, Vince Scully
Posted in Health, Māori, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Health, Māori, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Sociology
Julia Williams: Visual stimulation in the garden
Garden Design and Style: the essence of the garden Trisha Dixon, Collins, Auckland, 1991, $49.95 Garden Design and Style sets the tone of the book with an eye-catching cover and a preface that states quite honestly: it is ‘intended as…
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