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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
Off the map, Tim Beaglehole
The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman Grahame Anderson Te Papa Press, published in association with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), $49.95, ISBN 0909010757 The origins of this fascinating…
Tagged with: Abel Tasman, December 2001, Grahame Anderson, Issue 51, New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), Royal Netherlands Embassy, Te Papa Press, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Good sex and elegant science, Peter Hawes
Kokopu Dreams Chris Baker Huia, $24.95, ISBN 1877266310 First Hunter: Spirit Shinto Dale Elvy HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503899 The Army of Five Men, Volume One Shaun Hick HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503848 Counterpart Mike Johnson HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503856 Hollywood once…
Whose story is it, anyway? Kirstie Archer
The Fox Boy: The Story of an Abducted Child Peter Walker Bloomsbury, $29.95, ISBN 0747556466 Browsing in a Wellington bookshop, it was with delight that I picked up a copy of The Fox Boy. Here appeared to be a book…
Tagged with: Bloomsbury, December 2001, Issue 51, Kirstie Archer, Peter Walker
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Romancing the colonial, Jane Stafford
Johanna’s World O M Andresen (trans Johan Bonnevie) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503708 Mrs Rochester Warwick Blanchett HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503651 Consequences Carol Thomas HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503732 The uses of history are manifold and many-faceted. The literary uses of history…
Tagged with: Carol Thomas, December 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 51, Jane Stafford, Johan Bonnevie, O M Andresen, Warwick Blanchett
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Historians for hire, David Grant
Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940226X If I were an insecure sort of chap, I might be worried about what I actually do for a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bronwyn Dalley, December 2001, Issue 51, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Meet the monsters, Tony Simpson
Three Labour Leaders: Nordmeyer, Kirk, Rowling ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469394X Mirrors on the Hill: Reflections on New Zealand’s Political Leaders Keith Eunson Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469385 To the uninitiated, looking in askance from without, politics…
Tagged with: Arnold Nordmeyer, December 2001, Dunmore Press, Issue 51, Keith Eunson, Margaret Clark, Norman Kirk, Tony Simpson, Wallace (Bill) Rowling
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review