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An old‑fashioned life, David Mackay
Captain James Cook: A Biography Richard Hough Hodder & Stoughton, $54.95 Explorers do not always present easy subjects for biographers. Often the central achievements take up a relatively small portion of their lives and the doggedness and perseverance required for…
Tagged with: Captain James Cook, David Mackay, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 16, Richard Hough, Summer 1994
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
An inflated importance, John McBeth
Live from the Battlefield Peter Arnett Hodder & Stoughton, $49.95 Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Australia and Fleet Street were the beacons for every New Zealand journalist without a house full of kids or one of those painfully faithful…
Tagged with: Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 14, John McBeth, Peter Arnett, Winter 1994
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, War
Elusive birds beautifully depicted, Pat Quinn
Moa: The Story of a Fabulous Bird PhilipTemple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, $11.95 Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World Mary Taylor, Ashton Scholastic, $19.95 The South Island ‘sightings’ of the elusive moa provide a timely context…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 10, Mary Taylor, PhilipTemple, Spring 1993
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Unique, fascinating and vulnerable, Alan Mark
Natural History of New Zealand Nic Bishop, Hodder & Stoughton, $59.95 Yet another natural history of New Zealand, I hear you say, but this one is sufficiently different, attractive and up-to-date to appeal to the wide audience that is known…
Tagged with: Alan Mark, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 7, Nic Bishop, Summer 1992
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Fun for the very young, Nicola Chilton
Food is Fun for Young Cooks Dianne Lowry and Jan van der Voo, Book 2 Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 This book states it is ‘a perfect introduction for 7-12 year-olds to the delights of cooking’. About a quarter…
Tagged with: Dianne Lowry, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 5, Jan van der Voo, Nicola Chilton, Winter 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
A new young voice, Kirsty Cochrane
The Kite Ron Bacon and Kelvin Hawley, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $10.95 Out Walked Mel Paula Boock, John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1991, $16.95 A picture-book format, and a story that doesn’t quite match: which could be a short-story for slightly…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, John McIndoe, Kelvin Hawley, Kirsty Cochrane, Paula Boock, Ron Bacon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Gavin McLean: Diverse and shorter reviews
The Great New Zealand Fossil Book: Pictures of Ancient Life in an Evolving Land Ron Brazier, Ian Keyes and Graeme Stevens, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 On Shaky Ground: a Geological Guide to the Wellington Metropolitan Region Graeme…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Cape Catley, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Gavin McLean, Graeme Stevens, Graham Hutchins, Hodder & Stoughton, Ian Keyes, Issue 4, John McIndoe, Ken Moore, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Paul Bensemann, Ron Brazier
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson
New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Moments of recognition, Lauris Edmond
Speaking to Miranda Caroline Macdonald Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Even in the present increasingly sophisticated field of writing for young adults, Caroline Macdonald is something of a phenomenon. Her first book won the prestigious Esther Glen Medal, and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, Caroline Macdonald, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 1, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
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