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Wading in the waters, Sam Mahon
Beyond Manapouri: 50 Years of Environmental Politcs in New Zealand Catherine Knight Canterbury University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988503042 The battle to preserve our waters in this country has left us, as a nation, almost as bruised and divided as we…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Catherine Knight, Issue 124, Sam Mahon, Summer 2018
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A view from afar, Simon Upton
My Father’s Shadow: A Portrait of Justice Peter Mahon Sam Mahon Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877460173 I like Sam Mahon’s writerly qualities. This book confirms the literary reputation inaugurated with The Year of the Horse and broadened with delicious malice…
Tagged with: Issue 86, Longacre Press, Peter Mahon, Sam Mahon, Simon Upton, Winter 2009
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Watering down debate, Simon Upton
The Water Thieves Sam Mahon Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 1877361518 New Zealand is a largely debate-free zone. A couple of years ago, I co-authored an article on the Resource Management Act. Three of us – a partner in a national…
Tagged with: Issue 80, Longacre Press, Sam Mahon, Simon Upton, Summer 2007
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Staying in the saddle, Kim Griggs
The Year of the Horse Sam Mahon Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135739 In The Year of the Horse, sculptor Sam Mahon recounts the year he spent making of a life-sized bronze sculpture of a horse and rider, the archetypal Southern Man,…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Kim Griggs, Longacre, Sam Mahon, Winter 2002
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review