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Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond
14.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, f ...Show more
Chronicle of the Unsung by Martin Edmond
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Biography Award at the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Chronicle of the Unsung mingles biography and autobiography in an unusual work, beautifully written and often powerful and moving.Four quite separate periods or episodes in author Martin Edmond's life are linked by a number of the ...Show more
Ghost Who Writes by Martin Edmond
9.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Montana estates essay series | Reading Level: very good
'When the American writer Richard Ford read aloud from his novel Independence Day at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington on the night of March 9th, 2004, there was a moment between the end of his prefatory remarks and the beginning of the reading proper when his body seemed to shift slightly to one side, ...Show more
Histories of the Future by Martin Edmond
48.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Very Good
Essay collection by Martin Edmond, images by Maggie Hall.
Luca Antara : Passages in Search of Australia by Martin Edmond
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
Luca Antara is a rich tapestry of history and the present. Essentially, it parallels the life of the author, an
The Dreaming Land by Martin Edmond
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
So here I am walking again an old path made new by the very fact that I am upon it once more, accompanied by familiar hordes: the fecund majority of the dead, the myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise, traversing memory's infinite field.In the evocative ...Show more
The Expatriates by Martin Edmond
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendants of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, F ...Show more
The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition by Martin Edmond
41.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 was one of the best equipped expeditions of the Victorian era but it was doomed to a terrible fate. Much has been written about the leaders of this expedition but what do we know of other members of the party? In The Supply Party, Edmond takes the reader on a physi ...Show more
Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond
34.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern ...Show more
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