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A life lived to the full, Tom Brooking
A Life of J C Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar Tim Beaglehole Victoria University Press, $69.95, ISBN 0864735227 John Cawte Beaglehole remains New Zealand’s best-known and most highly regarded historian internationally. None of the numerous Cook biographies published since his magisterial…
Tagged with: Issue 76, J C Beaglehole, Summer 2006, Tim Beaglehole, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Pioneering efforts, Tom Brooking
The Legacy of Guilt: A Life of Thomas Kendall Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242330 There are few New Zealand history books that can be described as seminal, that is, books so deep in their research and broad…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 71, Judith Binney, Spring 2005, Thomas Kendall, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Aotearoa – the last frontier, Neville Peat
Environmental Histories of New Zealand ed Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019558421X Environmentally and in other ways, New Zealand is a last frontier – the last temperate-climate land on earth to be discovered and colonised…
Tagged with: Eric Pawson, Issue 59, Neville Peat, Oxford University Press, Spring 2002, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Writing us up, Tom Brooking
Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940271S New Zealand’s extreme isolation has always made it
attractive to travellers. As the most remote destination on the globe it has always held…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Lydia Wevers, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The pommie twit and the puppetmaster, Tom Brooking
Hobson Governor of New Zealand 1840–42 Paul Moon David Ling, $49.95, ISBN 0 90899 054 5 To Be A Hero: A Biography of Sir George Grey, 1812–1898 Edmund Bohan HarperCollins, $49.95, ISBN 1 86950 279 5 It is hard to…
Tagged with: David Ling, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 38, Paul Moon, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Accentuating the positive, Tom Brooking
The Mother of AlI Departments. The History of the Department of Internal Affairs Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1 869401751 Safeguarding the Public Health. A History of the New Zealand Department of Health Derek Dow Victoria University Press…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Derek Dow, Issue 34, Michael Bassett, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Reactionary conservationist, Tom Brooking
An Eye for Country: The Life and Work of Leslie Adkin Anthony Dreaver Victoria University Press with the assistance of Te Papa $49.95 ISBN 0 86473 31 9 4 Leslie Adkin – struggling farmer, amateur geologist, dilettante ethnographer and evocative…
Tagged with: Anthony Dreaver, Issue 32, Leslie Adkin, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A chance for scrutiny missed, Tom Brooking
Land and Water: Water and Soil Conservation and Central Government in New Zealand 1941-1988 Michael Roche Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $24.95, ISBN 0 477 05691 1 Visiting American academics are intrigued by the over-confident manner with which New…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 29, Michael Roche, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
But where are the people? Tom Brooking
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