The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature
edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
Auckland University Press (Inbooks), $65 hb, 1162 pp, 9781869405892
New Zealand
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
Reviewed by Brian Matthews •
To begin at the beginning. ‘When the first Pakeha ship came,’ Te Horeta told the explorer Charles Heaphy, ‘I was a lad … [about twelve years old].’ Watching the ‘white people’ row ashore, ‘paddling with their backs to the way they were going’, the boy and his companions ‘thought they must have eyes behind their heads’.
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The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature
edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
Auckland University Press (Inbooks), $65 hb, 1162 pp, 9781869405892
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