Research Catalog

Title

Waking up in strange places : where do New Zealanders belong? / John Bluck.

Author

Bluck, John.

Publication

Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 1999.

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Description

124 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

John Bluck takes us on a down-to-earth journey through a series of locations which, together, have helped to build his sense of place. He describes the physical and emotional landscape of each town and country - the people he encountered, the events he experienced, the food he ate and, especially, the movies he saw. The markers on his journey reveal new ways for us, as fellow New Zealanders, to see where we stand, in this country and in the world, and to understand and recognise the places that give us a sense of belonging. This book also offers us a novel way of looking back at the extraordinary social changes that have swept through New Zealand in recent decades.

Subject

• Bluck, John > Travel
• National characteristics, New Zealand
• Place (Philosophy)
• New Zealand > Biography
• New Zealand > History > 20th century
• New Zealand > Description and travel
• New Zealand > Social life and customs > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nuhaka : the skies were not cloudy all day -- Napier : stalag by the sea -- Christchurch : escape to the far country -- Boston : the wild, wild east -- Greyhound world : diesal-powered pilgrimage -- Gisbourne : an unfamiliar home -- Auckland : when believig was easier -- Geneva : life on the moon -- Eastern Europe : watching the watchers -- East Africa : swallowed by the landscape -- In the skies : no place for people -- Dundedin : home to where I hadn't been -- Blackball the centre on the edge -- Afterword : a pause in the journey.

ISBN

1877161721

OCLC

• 52414026
• SCSB-10504360

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library