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DescriptionIn 2006 NEW ZEALAND AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN introduced a new way of looking at New Zealand's national experience - its history, society and politics, even its rugby - as 15 authors considered what could have been rather than simply what was. Now this new book offers a further 17 portraits of 'New Zealand as it might have been' - a mix of short stories and commentaries, some whimsical, others grim, each offering a perceptive and plausible new slant on significant events and personalities. NEW ZEALAND AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 2 extends the range of 'what if' scenarios to include literary figures - among them New Zealand's most famous writer, Katherine Mansfield - as well as the country's internationally respected national hero, Sir Edmund Hillary, examining moments in their lives when, with only a modest degree of adjustment, things could well have taken an entirely different turn. Political and military events also feature, with New Zealand's fate under German rule after the First World War, and under Nazi occupation during the Second, challenging reminders of the country's insecure position in a world at war. |