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Letters – Issue 124
Ignoring the book I would like to respond to some of the criticisms of A Field Officer’s Notebook (AFON) made by Tom McLean in his review “Shivers of emotion” (NZB Spring 2018). (more…)…
Undercooked, Paul Moon
The Pacific in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill Meaghan Wilson Anastasios HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781460756393 Is there anything new to say about Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the Pacific? Edited accounts of his voyages appeared from 1773…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 124, Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Paul Moon, Sam Neill, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771562 You don’t have to be a good old-fashioned structuralist to look into the patterns of history and see the tectonic grind of ideas reflected in the rippling of…
Tagged with: Issue 124, John McCrystal, Summer 2018, Tina Makereti, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The Māori economy, old and new, Gyles Beckford
Heke Tangata: Māori in Markets and Cities Brian Easton for Te Whanau o Waipareira Oratia Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780947506438 In late 1984, a small group of Māori politicians, public servants and their helpers, invented an iwi to welcome hundreds of…
Tagged with: Brian Easton, Gyles Beckford, Issue 124, Oratia Books, Summer 2018
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Melody slithering through the misery, Martin Lodge
Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand’s Great War Chris Bourke Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 978869408718 For both civilians and the soldiers alike on active service during WWI, music proved a significant and enduring element of New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Bourke, Issue 124, Martin Lodge, Summer 2018
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
The light, fantastic toe, Jennifer Shennan
Limbs Dance Company – Dance for All People, 1977–1989 Marianne Schultz Marianne Schultz in conjunction with DANZ, $40.00 ISBN 9780473407698 This book about Limbs, New Zealand’s brightest modern dance troupe, in its heyday in 1980s Auckland, is dedicated “for Sue…
Down by the river, Nicholas Reid
The Waikato – A History of New Zealand’s Greatest River Paul Moon Atuanui Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780994137616 At 425 kilometres, the Waikato is the longest river in New Zealand. The case Paul Moon makes in The Waikato – A History…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 124, Nicholas Reid, Paul Moon, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A child’s-eye view, Anna Mackenzie
The Mapmakers’ Race Eirlys Hunter Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776572038 Time Twins Arne Norlin and Sally Astridge Submarine, $25.00, ISBN 9780473406325 Finding David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772392 The bonds of family and place, seen from an appropriately youthful viewpoint,…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Arne Norlin, David Hill, Eirlys Hunter, Gecko Press, Issue 124, Puffin, Sally Astridge, Submarine, Summer 2018
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Giving them what they want, Linda Burgess
Donato and the Cartege Blade Fiona Jordan Mary Egan Publishing, $25.00, ISBN 9780473437367 1918: Broken Poppies Des Hunt Scholastic, $19.00, ISBN 9781775432821 How Not to Stop a Kidnap Plot Suzanne Main Scholastic, $17.00, ISBN 9781775434801 Dawn Raid Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith…
Tagged with: Des Hunt, Fiona Jordan, Issue 124, Mary Egan Publishing, Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, Scholastic New Zealand, Summer 2018, Suzanne Main
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Wading in the waters, Sam Mahon
Beyond Manapouri: 50 Years of Environmental Politcs in New Zealand Catherine Knight Canterbury University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988503042 The battle to preserve our waters in this country has left us, as a nation, almost as bruised and divided as we…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Catherine Knight, Issue 124, Sam Mahon, Summer 2018
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review