Books
To the Mountains
A collection of New Zealand alpine writing Selected by Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey
A schoolgirl races from class to join a weekend trip to the hills. A mountaineering guide recalls his first weeks on the job during the 1920s. A young climber is shown the best route over the Main Divide by a big bull thar. A climbing party is bombarded by falling rock when Ruapehu suddenly erupts.
From the Darrans of Fiordland to Denali in Alaska, New Zealand climbers, experienced and recreational, have captured their alpine experience in letters, journals, articles, memoirs, poems and novels.
Drawing on 150 years of published and unpublished material, Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey, two top contemporary authors, have compiled a wide-ranging, fascinating and moving glimpse into New Zealand's mountaineering culture and the people who write about it.
See No Evil
New Zealand's betrayal of the people of West Papua Maire Leadbeater
See No Evil issues a challenge to New Zealanders. It relates the little-known history of West Papua, but its focus is on the impact of New Zealand's foreign policy on the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants. In the 1950s New Zealand supported self-determination for the former Dutch colony, but in 1962 backed Indonesia as it took over the territory.
Delving deep into government archives, many of them obtained under the Official Information Act, this meticulously researched book uncovers the untold story of New Zealand's “unprincipled and often hypocritical” diplomacy.
West Papua's story is now beginning to be heard. See No Evil is a shocking account by one of New Zealand's most respected authors on peace and Pacific issues, issuing a powerful call for a just and permanent solution – self-determination – for the people of West Papua.
For further information:
Otago University Press
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Books by Otago alumni
A World In Conflict: The Global Battle For Rugby Supremacy
by Geoff Parkes
Australian eBook Publisher, December 2017.
Edmund Hillary, a biography
by Michael Gill
Potton and Burton, September 2017.
Simply Local Flaps
by Michael F. Klaassen
Earle Brown and Felix Behan, Springer, 2018.
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic New Zealand Women
by Barbara Else
Penguin Random House, April 2018.
Riverscapes: Research Essays on the Social Context of Southern Catchments of Aotearoa New Zealand
edited by Mick Strack, Nicola Wheen, Brent Lovelock and Anna Carr
Catchments Otago.
Geographies of Development (4th edition)
by Robert Potter, Tony Binns, Jennifer Elliott, Etienne Nel and David Smith
April 2018.
The Routledge Handbook of African Development
edited by Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch and Etienne Nel
April 2018.
Pacific History
by Brent Coutts and Nicholas Fitness
Cengage, May 2018.
Field Guide to the New Zealand Seashore
by Sally Carson and Rod Morris
HarperCollins, 2018.
Chromosome Abnormalities and Genetic Counseling (5th edition)
by R. J. McKinlay Gardner and David J. Amor
Oxford University Press, 2018.
Pulpit Radical: The Story of New Zealand Social Campaigner Rutherford Waddell
by Ian Dougherty
Saddle Hill Press, June 2018.
The Treasure of Mad Doc Magee
by Elinor Teele
Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins, August, 2018.
Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? James Macandrew of Otago
by R.J. Bunce
Otago University Press, 2018.
The York Processional
edited and translated by Andrew A. Horsman
2018.
Alumni: if you have recently published a book please email mag.editor@otago.ac.nz