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More pork and potatoes, anyone? John O’Leary

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Poenamo Revisited John Logan Campbell (essay and notes by R C J Stone) Godwit, $60.00, ISBN 9781869797980 Most New Zealanders – even those living south of the Bombay Hills – have heard of John Logan Campbell, the Father of Auckland,…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Godwit, Issue 101, John Logan Campbell, John O’Leary, R C J Stone
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Absolutely commercially, Jenny Robin Jones

Posted on March 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Logan Campbell’s Auckland: Tales from the Early Years R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403935 Wellington: Biography of a City Redmer Yska Reed, $44.99, ISBN 0790011077 Auckland illuminated through stories of the past; Wellington reconstructed through careful…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Jenny Robin Jones, John Logan Campbell, R C J Stone, Redmer Yska, Reed
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Localising the global, George Griffiths

Posted on March 1, 2001 by NZ Books

From Tamaki-makau-rau to Auckland R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402596 Rolling Thunder: the Spirit of Karekare Bob Harvey Exisle Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0908988176 Remembering Godley: a Portrait of Canterbury’s Founder ed Mark Stocker Hazard Press, $29.95,…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Bob Harvey, Exisle Publishing, George Griffiths, Hazard Press, Issue 53, Julia Bradshaw, Mark Stocker, Otago University Press, R C J Stone
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Austerity and fecundity, Michael Bassett

Posted on March 5, 1998 by NZ Books

James Dilworth R C J Stone Dilworth Trust Books $49.95 ISBN 0 473 02990 1 Plain Living, High Thinking: The Family Story of Jennie and Will Lovell-Smith Margaret Lovell-Smith Pedmore Press $34.95 ISBN 0 473 03033 0 These two books…

Tagged with: Dilworth Trust Books, Issue 32, James Dilworth, Jennie Lovell-Smith, Margaret Lovell-Smith, Michael Bassett, Pedmore Press, R C J Stone, Will Lovell-Smith
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Catching up with the law, Rory Sweetman

Posted on July 1, 1992 by NZ Books

The Making of Russell McVeagh R C J Stone, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 The Story of Bell Gully Buddle Weir 1840-1990 Julia Millen, Bell Gully Buddle Weir, Wellington, 1990, $35 How to respond to the recent publication of…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bell Gully Buddle Weir, Julia Millen, R C J Stone, Rory Sweetman
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review