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Going high, Julia Millen
To the Mountains: A Collection of New Zealand Alpine Writing Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781988531205 Since the arrival of Pacific peoples, New Zealand’s mountains have enthralled and enchanted. Māori revered the craggy peaks…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Julia Millen, Laurence Fearnley, Otago University Press, Paul Hersey
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Radiant living: a hero rediscovered, Julia Millen
Edmund Hillary: A Biography Michael Gill Potton and Burton, $60.00, ISBN 9780947503383 1953: Edmund Hillary, Everest conqueror (with Tenzing Norgay), is knighted by newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II. From the time he climbed his first peak in the Southern Alps,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Julia Millen, Michael Gill, Potton and Burton
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Discovery on the great southern continent, Julia Millen
Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $55.00, ISBN 9781927249055 New Zealand’s connection with Antarctica began with early explorers. Abel Janszoon Tasman and Captain James Cook sailed south seeking Terra Australis Incognita and…
Once were mountaineers, Julia Millen
The Mantis Philip Temple $8.00, Vertebrate Publishing e-book, ISBN 9781906148881 Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas Brian Wilkins Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578489 Old climbers and bold climbers, but no old bold…
Tagged with: Brian Wilkins, Issue 108, Julia Millen, Otago University Press, Philip Temple, Vertebrate Publishing
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Love and land, Julia Millen
Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Angela Wanhalla Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869407315 In Christchurch, May 1970, Stan Wanhalla (Irish, German and Maori ancestry) married Coralie Noonan (Irish, Manx heritage): one of many…
Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Auckland University Press, Issue 104, Julia Millen, Summer 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A rowdy lot, Julia Millen
Convicts: New Zealand’s Hidden Criminal Past Matthew Wright Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567646 We New Zealanders have always been complacent, even smug, about our nation’s origins. Unlike our nearest, much bigger, neighbour, New Zealand was never a penal colony, having been…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Julia Millen, Matthew Wright, Penguin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Cataloguing the past, Hilary Stace
Te Rau Herenga: A Century of Library Life in New Zealand: The New Zealand Library Association and LIANZA 1910-2010 Julia Millen Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, $40.00, ISBN 9780473175795 Librarians have long endured negative stereotypes, but…
Tagged with: Hilary Stace, Issue 94, Julia Millen, LIANZA, Winter 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Mist and myth, Julia Millen
Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143008422 Until the early 1960s the source for almost everything we learned at school and read in The School Journal about the…
Tagged with: Issue 91, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Julia Millen, Penguin Books, Spring 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Celebrating the singular, Julia Millen
Sit There and Draw That! Helen Crabb (“Barc”): Artist and Teacher Patricia Fry Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877448546 Bill’s Story: A Portrait of W A Sutton Pat Unger Canterbury University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877257704 Painting Out the Past: The Life…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Helen Crabb, Issue 86, Julia Millen, Longacre Press, Pat Unger, Patricia France, Patricia Fry, Richard Donald, Steele Roberts, W A Sutton, Winter 2009
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Old novelists never die, John McCrystal
Guthrie Wilson: Soldier, Writer, Educator Julia Millen First Edition, $34.95, ISBN 1877391638 A stroll past the literature shelves of the “reference-only” section of a public library is a sobering experience for a writer, for there engraved on the spines of…
Tagged with: First Edition, Guthrie Wilson, Issue 76, John McCrystal, Julia Millen, Summer 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review