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Figures in history: the sculpture of Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan
Visitors who arrive at Mangere airport see their first piece of New Zealand sculpture as they leave the main terminal building: the eight-foot-high bronze figure of a young lean Batten as she stretches on tip-toe, waving to the crowd, reaching…
Tagged with: Issue 5, Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, 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
Letters – Issue 5
The legacies of history I should like to comment upon some very misleading remarks in the review by Mr B J Poff of my recent book, Kinds of Peace, Maori People after the Wars, 1870-85, (March 1992). In my preface,…
Boys at centre-stage, Vivien Joseph
Uncle Trev and The Great South Island Plan Jack Lasenby, Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, 1991, $14.95 Does Daniel Wilmott Tell Lies? Juliet Martin, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991 The Boy At The Door and Other Stories of the Supernatural Anthony Holcroft,…
Tagged with: Anthony Holcroft, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 5, Jack Lasenby, Juliet Martin, Vivien Joseph, Winter 1992
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Parrots and paintings, Tom Fitzgibbon
The Story of the Kakapo: Parrot of the night Philip Temple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, $9.95 Matarawa House Rhondda Greig, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $21.50 For the many summertime trampers such as myself, the name of Philip…
Tagged with: Chris Gaskin, Hazard Press, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 5, Philip Temple, Rhondda Greig, Tom Fitzgibbon, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
The Dictionary in retrospect, John Roberts
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume One, 1769-1869, Allen and Unwin (Bridget Williams Books) and the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1990, $120 Christendom is essentially a construct of biography. The Gospels relate the temporal genealogy, life and death…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Bridget Williams Books, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Natural World, House Notes, June 1992
The World of Albatrosses and The World of Penguins Chris Gaskin, and Neville Peat, with photographs by Kim Westerskov, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, each $19.95 Those who have visited the Taiaroa Head Royal albatross colony and been fortunate enough…
Glowing with insight and honesty, Alison Parr
You Are My Darling Zita Glenn Busch, Godwit, Auckland, 1991, $44.95 Glenn Busch has created an extraordinary book. Through the stories of six ‘ordinary people’ he has crafted a revealing and deeply moving account of the process of ageing. Hours…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Glenn Busch, Godwit, Issue 5, Winter 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Issues of shared identity, Peter Beatson
Pakeha: The Quest For Identity in New Zealand Michael King (ed), Penguin Books, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 I came to this book already blooded from a remarkably bad-tempered review by Maurice Shadbolt, in which he variously described the contributors as numb…
Tagged with: Issue 5, Michael King, Penguin Books, Peter Beatson, Winter 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology