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As Big as a Father by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Finalist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Poetry Section) An outstanding new talent from the South Island, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman has published extensively in the Listener and in a variety of NZ and UK periodicals. This is the third volume of his poetry to be published in New Ze ...Show more
Autumn Waiata (estimated price) (Handling fee and/or freight charges may apply) by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
18.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
Autumn Waiata is a chapbook of sixteen poems. There are ten related elegies, set mostly on the University of Canterbury campus, that meditate on time & place, losses & beauty.
Best of Both Worlds: The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
41.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of ...Show more
Shaken Down 6.3 by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is an acclaimed poet, historian and teacher. His first major collection, As Big as a Father, was shortlisted in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and his next, The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets, was warmly received by reviewers and readers alike. David Eggleton wrote ...Show more
The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
From Blackball's short history flows a rich vein of stories about who we are. Jeffrey Paparoa Holman spent his growing years in Blackball where his father was a miner. Back then the bridge was a wooden road across the river to high school, to League games, to the outside world. Now it spans time to reac ...Show more
The Lost Pilot by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
On 6 April 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot breaks cloud at 3,000 feet, near the island of Ishigaki. He plunges his Suisei divebomber into a fatal dive at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. On the signals deck, Chief Petty Officer W. T. Holman sees him coming - he has just seconds to react. ...Show more
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