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Matrix and destroyer, Bill Sewell

Posted on October 28, 1998 by NZ Books

Lake, mountain, tree: an anthology of writing on New Zealand nature and landscape Philip Temple (ed) Godwit $34.95 ISBN 1 86962022 4 Landscape writing – like landscape painting – is as familiar as it is inoffensive. It’s Wordsworth’s Lake District,…

Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Godwit, Issue 35, Philip Temple
Posted in Literature, Natural History, Review

A greatly enhanced guide, Andy Dennis

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand Barrie Heather and Hugh Robertson; illust Derek Onley Viking, $49.95, ISBN 0 670 86911 2 The Book of the Kea Philip Temple Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 0 340 600039 Wake of…

Tagged with: Andy Dennis, Barrie Heather, Derek Onley, Exisle Publishing, Hodder Moa Beckett, Hugh Robertson, Madelene Ferguson Allen, Philip Temple
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

Who are the intruders? Brian Turner

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Dark of the Moon and Beak of the Moon, Philip Temple, Penguin, each $24.95 Sailor, explorer, writer, mountaineer: Philip Temple was all of those things when I first met him in the 1970s. Originally from England ‑ he emigrated as…

Tagged with: Issue 11, Penguin, Philip Temple, Summer 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Parrots and paintings, Tom Fitzgibbon

Posted on July 1, 1992 by NZ Books

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 Temple…

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