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Dear Alison : A New Zealand Soldier's Story From Stalag 383
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| NZ$ 30.00 each |
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| Author: Edited by Simon Pollard |
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In July 1942 with a notebook and pencil he had bought from a German guard, Dudley Muff started Alison's Book. Dudley was 42 and a prisoner of war in Stalag XVIIIB in Germany and his niece Alison was four and living in Timaru. It starts "Dear Alison, Mummy has told you all about Uncle being a prisoner, so now I must tell you what we do to pass the time."
With humorous entries, sketches and what he called "little men" his story grew until it became an unbelievable account of his time served in two prisoner-of-war camps. Given to Alison when he returned to Christchurch after the war, she read it first as a child, purely for the excitement such a story could impart.
Only later, rereading this as an adult, did she see through the veiled references to how life really was in the camps. After returning to Christchurch, Dudley added a one page postscript describing his journey to freedom. He finished the book with, "Now I shall
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Nest of Singing Birds : One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal
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Winner Montana Reference and Anthology Award 2008
The School Journal will be 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred years of the New Zealand School Journal - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has shaped the country we live in.
"A nest of singing birds" is how the School Journal office was once described to poet and Journal editor Alistair Campbell.
Over the course of its history, the School Journal has attracted work from some of New Zealand's greatest writers and artists, among them Margaret Mahy, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Rita Angus, Russell Clark, and Dick Frizzell.
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Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA : 68 Great New Zealand Scientists
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| Author: Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley |
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From Joseph Banks to Ernest Rutherford to Beatrice Tinsley to Ingrid Visser, 'Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA' covers 68 of New Zealand's most pre-eminent scientists. Among them are some of the earliest explorers and collectors, the first professional scientists and some of today's leading scientists who are continuing to make discoveries about our world and working to shape our future. There is a great spread of specialst fields include botany, physics, geology, archaeology, nutrition, marine science, palaentology, nanotechnology, ornithology, conservation and much more. By presenting the life and work of each scientist in chronological sequence, this book also charts the history of science in New Zealand over the past two centuries. This book is based on a major science exhibition, curated by the authors and held at the National Library of NZ in 2006.
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