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Issue 75 | October 2006
Volume 16 | Number 4 | Issue 75 | October 2006 Brian Turner: Geoff Park, Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Editorial: “The importance of being earnest” Letters Kerry Popplewell: “Reading The Master” (poem) Mary Varnham: Edmund Bohan,…
View from the hilltop, Rawiri Taonui
State of the Maori Nation: Twenty-first Century Issues in Aotearoa Malcolm Mulholland and contributors Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790010429 Ngapua: The Political Life of Hone Heke Ngapua Paul Moon David Ling, $39.99, ISBN 187737802X The Maori population doubled during the two…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Hone Heke Ngapua, Issue 75, Malcolm Mulholland, Paul Moon, Rawiri Taonui, Reed, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Kerry Popplewell
Reading The Master (In memory of Stuart Johnston) Last year before you died, you told me about this book – admired its reticence, the way it invited complicity, embraced the challenge of tangle. Trusting your judgement, I’m reading…
The bit in between, Tony Simpson
Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Cospatrick Charles R Clark University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 187737214 5 This is the world’s most immigrant society. Every single person living here is either an immigrant or descended…
Tagged with: Charles R Clark, Issue 75, Otago University Press, Spring 2006, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Letters – Issue 75
Worth a thousand words Your reviewer, Paul Thompson (NZB, August 2006) says of Laurence Aberhart’s Domestic Architecture (1974-2005): The function of this book is problematic – its natural meaning would seem to be as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition,…
Must do better, Jon Johansson
Political Leadership in New Zealand Raymond Miller and Michael Mintrom (ed) Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 1869403584 One of my favourite leadership stories derives from the French Revolution. A self-styled revolutionary leader is enjoying a typically Parisian delight, his morning…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Jon Johansson, Michael Mintrom, Raymond Miller, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 75
The importance of being earnest Palmerston North writer Craig Harrison once glumly observed in an interview with one of us that, although the trend might be apparent only to someone who had read all 140 entries in Palmerston North’s Evening…
Cheery beery male bohemia, Julia Millen
The Bookmen’s Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 Chris Hilliard Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403622 Pat Lawlor’s “bookmen” or “frothblowers” were middle-aged men identifiable and, in a way, isolated not by such things as flamboyant attire, but by…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Hilliard, Issue 75, Julia Millen, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The sins of our fathers, Brian Turner
Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Geoff Park Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734573 In his excellent address to the New Zealand Landscape conference in 2003, included in Theatre Country under the title “A Moment in History”, Geoff Park…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Geoff Park, Issue 75, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Children’s fiction Wilderness tips, Kathryn Walls
The Tears of Harry Wakatipu Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 1877361437 Stories about individuals surviving in the wilderness have a long history. The Old Testament represents the wilderness as the place of escape from the oppression and corruption of…
Tagged with: Issue 75, Jack Lasenby, Kathryn Walls, Longacre Press, Spring 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review