National Parks of New Zealand

From the Writer's Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors by Lydia Monin

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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!). 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. Lydia Monin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 205-207) And Index. This 2006 Reed Books Paperback is in Good condition.

ISBN: 9780790011080 SKU: 1274035 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.