Civilisation : twenty places at the edge of the world / Steve Braunias.

By:

Braunias, Steve [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Wellington, N.Z. : Awa Press, 2012Description: 250 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

187755135X
9781877551352

Other title:

Civilization

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

919.304 23

Contents:

1. Hicks Bay: brief history of meat -- 2. Pegasus: newest New Zealand -- 3. Waiōuru: Operation Desert Rose -- 4. St. Bathans: wind -- 5. Ōhinemutu and Whakarewarewa: how to cook a fish head -- 6. Hauraki Plains: country roads -- 7. Miranda: birdland -- 8. Scott Base: smoking in Antarctica -- 9. Apia: neighbours -- 10. Mt. Roskill: welcome home -- 11. Wanganui, Whanganui: in absentia -- 12. Mercer: fog -- 13. Winton: the goodness of swedes -- 14. Tangimoana: lament of the ocean -- 15. Mosgiel: looking for trouble -- 16. Wānaka: the stories of others -- 17. Greymouth: the Pike River mine disaster -- 18. Collingwood: Lenny, Denny, Buttons and Tink -- 19. Wainuiomata: lost city of Fitzroy -- 20. Maromaku Valley: the ballad of Stan.

Summary: "Stories of people living in Apia, Collingwood, Greymouth, Hauraki Plains, Hicks Bay, Maromaku Valley, Mercer, Miranda, Mosgiel, Mt Roskill, Ohinemutu, Pegasus, St Bathans, Scott Base, Tangimoana, Wainuiomata, Waiouru, Wanaka, Whakarewarewa, Whanganui, Winton"--Publisher information.

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"Stories of people living in Apia, Collingwood, Greymouth, Hauraki Plains, Hicks Bay, Maromaku Valley, Mercer, Miranda, Mosgiel, Mt Roskill, Ohinemutu, Pegasus, St Bathans, Scott Base, Tangimoana, Wainuiomata, Waiouru, Wanaka, Whakarewarewa, Whanganui, Winton"--Publisher information.

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