num_pages: 150
description: As their friends leave for Europe and the government gets tough with the unions, a bohemian community is enjoying the euphoria of youth.It was their dreamtime. The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna shoreline of Auckland, where the artist Melior Farbro grew his vegetables and let Cecilia Skyways follow her own form of Zen Buddhism in his garden hut. Where Curl Skidmore, his brilliant young head full of novels waiting to be unravelled, could dream of God, Fame, Nirvana, Great Love, or maybe just sex. Where not even the harbourfront strike of 1951 could convince them that life wasn't about poetry and painting and potential.
language: English
title: All Visitors Ashore
titlecomplete: All Visitors Ashore
genres: Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 102
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: Fiction (NZ Book Awards)
publisher: Vintage Books