harry ricketts editors (2 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No signatures.; 2011 reprint, in same year as the first printing. 391, [1] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 210 x 138mm. Various contributors. Illustrated. "This book is a gift to and a celebration of Roger Robinson. If you have not heard of him when you pick it up, you will come to know him for the extraordinary man of many worlds that he is, above all, as befits a champion runner and a professor of English, the worlds of running and writing. It is made up of memoirs, tributes, poems, running essays and literary essays, and will, we hope, please anyone who shares Roger's love of running, writing and fascinating people.".

v Card covers, 296pp, b&w and colour illustrated. Light wear to card edges, laminate liftling at leading edges of covers; a very good copy. This collection of writings stands as an important reflection on the ways in which New Zealanders remember their involvement in World War I - be it through a poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, or a name on a plaque in a small town. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers, and other prominent figures reflect on various forms of remembering and remembering, what we have cherished and valued, forgotten and ignored, constructed and reframed.