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From the writer's notebook : around New Zealand with 80 authors / Lydia Monin.
- Title
- From the writer's notebook : around New Zealand with 80 authors / Lydia Monin.
- Author
- Monin, Lydia.
- Publication
- Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed Books, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR756.T72 M66 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Ideas, reflections and memories from the pen of the world’s most celebrated authors as they journeyed through New Zealand fill these pages. Clairvoyant dogs, smoking giants and fairies on horseback feature; as well as visions of femme fatales, a suicidal warrior and a despotic destroyer of the elderly and infirmed. They describe strange lands; from the summits of magical, snow-capped mountains to the depths of wondrous caves that glow. There are tales of love and war, of pioneering heroes and tragic heroines, of great deeds and gruesome murders. From The Writer’s Notebook is a piece of literary sleuthing to find out exactly what visiting literary luminaries such as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling really thought of New Zealand and the people who call the country home. It also reveals how New Zealand has been portrayed by those who never set foot in the country but who wrote about it anyhow. Notes from private diaries, journals, newspaper articles and published works of legends such as George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Anthony Trollope paint a portrait of a nation that is by turns comic and tragic, cruel and kind, but always affectionate (well, almost always!).
- Alternative Title
- Around New Zealand with eighty authors
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Tales of the anglers bravado -- A bonfire with the vanities -- A paradise discovers : a paradise lost -- See Napier and Spit -- Following Mr Booley -- With a lost soul as my guide -- Murderers Rock and Queen of crime -- A Mad Dog and Englishman Out in the Midday Sun -- Chasing the Golden Fleece -- The Last Lampost.
- ISBN
- 9780790011080 (pbk.)
- 0790011085 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007360103
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library