Looking for the Phoenix

A Memoir

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania, Modern, 20th Century, Biography & Memoir
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Author: W.H. Oliver ISBN: 9781927131121
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books Publication: January 1, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: W.H. Oliver
ISBN: 9781927131121
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Publication: January 1, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English
W.H. Oliver, a central figure in New Zealand’s intellectual landscape, reflects on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him.The first editor of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the author of The Story of New Zealand, Oliver tells of his Cornish upbringing, the influences of feminism, friendship and family, and his part in the key intellectual and historical debates of his time.A wide-ranging account by a man who was poet, author and scholar, it is also perceptive, wry and sometimes painfully honest.
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W.H. Oliver, a central figure in New Zealand’s intellectual landscape, reflects on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him.The first editor of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the author of The Story of New Zealand, Oliver tells of his Cornish upbringing, the influences of feminism, friendship and family, and his part in the key intellectual and historical debates of his time.A wide-ranging account by a man who was poet, author and scholar, it is also perceptive, wry and sometimes painfully honest.

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