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Welcome to the NZHistory.net.nz newsletter, 1 September 2008

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New Zealand Book Month

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/nz-book-month

New Zealanders are voracious readers. Surveys show that relaxing with a
good book is one of our favourite pastimes.  Held each September since
2006, New Zealand Book Month is designed to celebrate and promote this
country's writing talent, support new and upcoming writers, and
encourage New Zealanders to buy and read more homegrown books. 

Here at NZHistory.net.nz, we are celebrating Book Month with 30 reasons
to love New Zealand books and writing
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6223> . There is a different story for
each day in September about some of the people, events, books and other
publications that are part of this country's literary heritage. 

This is a selection of snapshots, not a definitive history of New
Zealand writing. Well-known writers such as Robin Hyde
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6206> , Allen Curnow
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6269>  and Booker Prize winner Keri
Hulme <http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=31/10>  feature
alongside non-fiction icons like Guthrie-Smith's Tutira
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6244> , Walter Buller's Birds
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6297>  and the Edmonds cookery book
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6260> . The importance of children's
writing is reflected in features on Avis Acres' Hutu and Kawa
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/1705>  series, Hairy Maclary
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6301>  and the six-decade-old Esther
Glen Award <http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6247> . We also explore the
role of periodicals like the School Journal
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=9/5>  and Railways
Magazine <http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline&new_date=1/5> , and
highlight less-celebrated tales such as Ponga and Puhihuia
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6241>  and Julius Vogel's
future-gazing Anno domini 2000 <http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/6231> .


Once you've read the 30 reasons, test yourself out with the great NZ
Book Month Quiz:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/quiz/nz-book-month-quiz

 

Waiuta - through the eyes of a miner

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/waiuta

Today Waiuta is a West Coast ghost town. But from 1906 to 1951 it was
the company town for the South Island's largest gold mine and home to
600 people. The superb photographs of Czech immigrant Joseph Divis
provide a fascinating glimpse of Waiuta in its heyday.

 

Also...

Don't forget to check out this week's quiz:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/quiz/week-history  and, our Kiwi of the Week
- Brian Barratt-Boyes
<http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/brian-barratt-boyes> 

 

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