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Killing what we love, Garth Baker
Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees Philip Simpson Te Papa Press with the Project Crimson Trust, $99.99 (hb), $59.99 (pb), ISBN 1877385131/0909010994 Philip Simpson’s Pohutukawa and Rata follows his earlier homage to cabbage trees. He wrote his popular Dancing…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, Issue 75, Philip Simpson, Project Crimson Trust, Spring 2006, Te Papa Press
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
According to Toss, Ian Richards
Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters ed Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $59.99, ISBN 0909010072 The first thing you notice about this handsomely produced volume from Te Papa Press is the title Woollaston, in large red letters, running down the…
Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 68, Jill Trevelyan, June 2005, Te Papa Press
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Cabinet of curiosities, Roger Blackley
Icons Nga Taonga: From the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Te Papa curatorial team Te Papa Press, $79.99, ISBN 090901096X On a recent visit from his Tasmanian hideaway, art museum guru Daniel Thomas expressed amazement that Te Papa’s…
Tagged with: Issue 64, Roger Blackley, Summer 2003, Te Papa curatorial team, Te Papa Press
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Art as survival, David Eggleton
Pacific Art Niu Sila: the Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts ed Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira Te Papa Press,$49.95, ISBN 0909010838 Robert Louis Stevenson, writing about Samoan culture over a century ago, expressed it thus: No occasion…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, David Eggleton, Issue 57, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Te Papa Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Off the map, Tim Beaglehole
The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman Grahame Anderson Te Papa Press, published in association with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), $49.95, ISBN 0909010757 The origins of this fascinating…
Tagged with: Abel Tasman, December 2001, Grahame Anderson, Issue 51, New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), Royal Netherlands Embassy, Te Papa Press, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
The amazonian element, Diane Hebley
The Apple Tree and other stories Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783469 Scarface Claw Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783620 Baby Bumble and the Sock Pirates Vivienne Joseph, illustrated by Ruth Paul Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783507 Nanny…
Tagged with: December 2001, Diane Hebley, Issue 51, John Walsh, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Ruth Paul, Te Papa Press, Vivienne Joseph
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
The triumph of reinvention, Mary Varnham
Wellington – The First Years of European Settlement 1840-1850 Gavin McLean Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0140288635 Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens, and landscape Winsome Shepherd Te Papa Press, $49.95, ISBN 0909010730 Kirkcaldie & Stains – A Wellington Story Julia Millen…
The grit and the grog, Gerry Evans
Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam Neil Atkinson Te Papa Press, $39.95, ISBN 0909010818 An Errand of Mercy: Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the loss of the Kakanui Redmer Yska Banshee Books, $29.95, ISBN 0473076993 “For more than…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Banshee Books, Gerry Evans, Issue 53, Neil Atkinson, Redmer Yska, Te Papa Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Popular parlance, Peter Ireland
New Zealand: a century of images Paul Thompson Te Papa Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 909010 45 5 There is sometimes a phrase, a picture or a juxtaposition of both in a book that inadvertently clarifies its nature more than any…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Paul Thompson, Peter Ireland, Te Papa Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Dream on, Rodney Hamel
Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand Te Papa Press, Exhibition Catalogue $39.95 ISBN 0 90901048 X In their foreword, Cheryll Southeran and Chris Staines explain that the exhibition that originated this catalogue was designed to acknowledge…