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On a human scale, Felicity Barnes

Posted on December 5, 2015 by NZ Books

Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross Te Papa Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780987668851 One hundred years on, WWI continues to loom large in New Zealand life. With the…

Tagged with: Felicity Barnes, Issue 112, Kate Hunter, Kirstie Ross, Summer 2015, Te Papa Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War

With backpack and library card, Chris Maclean

Posted on March 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the 20th Century Kirstie Ross Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 978186904246 If I have read about 50 pages and still not been drawn into an author’s world, then I usually put the book…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Chris Maclean, Issue 85, Kirstie Ross
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

Loving nature to death, Kirstie Ross

Posted on March 1, 2005 by NZ Books

The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism Margaret McClure Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403193 Our Islands, Our Selves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand David Young University of Otago Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877276944 Tourism and conservation are the…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, David Young, Issue 69, Kirstie Ross, Margaret McClure, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review