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Behind the passionate eye, Peter Calder
Self-portrait Marti Friedlander with Hugo Manson Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869407841 One day we will all be just a photograph, Marti Friedlander tells us in the closing pages of this entertaining and readable memoir. Coming as it does from…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Hugo Manson, Issue 104, Marti Friedlander, Peter Calder, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
Column centimetres and sound bites, Peter Calder
Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar (eds) AUT Media, $39.95, ISBN 9780958299763 For an industry that spends its time holding others to account, journalism has a remarkable…
Tagged with: AUT Media, Issue 99, Martin Hirst, Peter Calder, Sean Phelan, Spring 2012, Verica Rupar
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Science ε = –dø/dt, Peter Calder
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism Gillian Turner Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780958275002 Consider this passage about magnetism: Cooling basalts, it turns out, contain small crystals of iron-oxide compounds ……
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Awa Press, Gillian Turner, Issue 93, Peter Calder
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Bright fine gold, Peter Calder
Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes Stevan Eldred-Grigg Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869419257 In the closing pages of this comprehensive, even magisterial, historical survey, the author quotes the observation by Joan Stevens in The…
Tagged with: Issue 86, Peter Calder, Random House, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Winter 2009
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
No tame dusky maiden, Peter Calder
Makereti: Taking Maori to the World Paul Diamond Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869419004 In 1911, the year of George V’s coronation, a “Festival of Empire” was staged at London’s Crystal Palace exhibition centre. A forerunner of the great mid-century expos…
Tagged with: Issue 82, Paul Diamond, Peter Calder, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Wish you were here, Jane Westaway
On Blue Ice – A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica Kim Griggs Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869415760 Travels with my Mother Peter Calder Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877298093 The most memorable travel books don’t merely transport you to foreign parts,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Peter Calder, Random House, Tandem
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review