The Wildtrack Book Donna Bryant, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $12.95 Did you know that people eat more sharks than sharks eat people? Or that the killer whale is neither a killer nor a whale, but a dolphin? Or that…
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What to do with stranded whales, Stephanie Edmond
Tagged with: Donna Bryant, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 3, Spring 1991, Stephanie Edmond
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Addressing the crystal ball, Ben Gray
Unsettled Outlook, New Zealand in a Greenhouse World Matt McGlone, Tom Clarkson and Blair Fitzharris GP Books, Wellington, 1990, $19.95 Historical Taranaki: An Archaeological Guide Nigel Prickett, GP Books, Wellington, 1990, $19.95 The ‘Greenhouse effect’ has entered our vocabulary. Most…
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Tagged with: Ben Gray, Blair Fitzharris, GP Books, Issue 3, Matt McGlone, Nigel Prickett, Spring 1991, Tom Clarkson
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Diverse enjoyable strands, Heather Roberts
A Population of One Alice Glenday, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 The Peace Monster John Smythe, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 The Widowhood of Jacki Bates Frances Cherry, New Women’s Press, Auckland 1991, $19.95 Strained Relations Gaelyn Gordon, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $24.95…
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Tagged with: Alice Glenday, Frances Cherry, Gaelyn Gordon, Heather Roberts, Issue 3, John Smythe, New Women's Press, Spring 1991, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Two outstanding plant books, Kerry Carman
Flowering Plants of New Zealand Colin Webb, Peter Johnson and Bill Sykes DSIR Botany, Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1990, $39.95 Wildflowers of New Zealand Owen Bishop Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $39.95 ‘Wildflower air is the sweetest air’, wrote Richard Jeffries…
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Tagged with: Caxton Press, Colin Webb, DSIR Botany, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 3, Kerry Carman, Owen Bishop, Peter Johnson and Bill Sykes, Spring 1991
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Chronicler of our ‘provincial’ past, Lawrence Jones
Always the Islands of Memory Noel Virtue, Vintage Books, Random Century Group, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Noel Virtue’s fourth novel appeared in England early this year and like his third one In the Country of Salvation received favourable attention, Christopher Hawtree in The Spectator going…
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Tagged with: Issue 3, Lawrence Jones, Noel Virtue, Random Century Group, Spring 1991, Vintage Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reassuring handbooks, Marie Bell
What Makes a Good School? G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 Your Toddler Mary Stevenson and David Geddis, G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 What Makes a Good School? is timely. It aims to help parents, particularly those on boards of…
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Tagged with: G P Books, Issue 3, Mary Stevenson and David Geddis, Spring 1991
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Hard-edged social realism, Vincent O’Sullivan
The Shining City Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Once upon a time there was the working class. It lived in wretched houses, did boring jobs, spoke with a consistently vulgar vitality, and as a sort of class badge, said…
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Tagged with: Issue 3, Penguin, Spring 1991, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A peculiarly contemporary figure, Erik Olssen
The Verse of Edward Tregear K R Howe (ed), Nagare Press, Palmerston North, 1991, $20 The Singer in a Songless Land, A Life of Edward Tregear 1846-1931 K R Howe, Auckland University Press, 1991, $39.95 Edward Tregear was one of…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Erik Olssen, Issue 3, K R Howe, Nagare Press, Spring 1991
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Fracture Country, Brian Turner
It’s Saturday 21 September, 3:45 p.m. I’m lying flat on my back in Ward 3B, Room 11, Dunedin Hospital. Four of us, flat on our backs, for this is fracture country. Ron, a farmer from Saddle Hill, broke his tibia…
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