ISBN10: 1988533171, ISBN13: 9781988533179, [publisher: Bridget Williams Books, Wellington 2017] Softcover 23.0 x 15.0cms, 326pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This book has biographies of 4 eminent expatriate New Zealanders: Harold Williams, journalist; Ronald Syme, historian; John Platts-Mills, lawyer & political activist; Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian.
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ISBN10: 1988533171, ISBN13: 9781988533179, [publisher: Bridget Williams Books, Wellington] Softcover Paperback. The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre.This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John Platt-Mills, radical lawyer and political activist; and Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian, scholar and protector of culture.These were men, born in remote New Zealand, who achieved fame in Europeeven as they were lost sight of at home. Men who became, from the point of view of their country of origin, expatriates.A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of these four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now. A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock avai ...
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ISBN10: 1988533171, ISBN13: 9781988533179, [publisher: Bridget Williams Books, Wellington] Softcover Paperback. The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre.This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John Platt-Mills, radical lawyer and political activist; and Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian, scholar and protector of culture.These were men, born in remote New Zealand, who achieved fame in Europeeven as they were lost sight of at home. Men who became, from the point of view of their country of origin, expatriates.A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of these four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now. A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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