Waking up in strange places
Subtitle: where do New Zealanders belong?
By: John Bluck
Publisher: Hazard Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Christchurch, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781877161728
Subjects: Travel; New Zealand National characteristics; Place (Philosophy); Social conditions; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: John Bluck takes us on a down-to-earth journey through a series of locations which, together, have helped to build his sense of place. He describes the physical and emotional landscape of each town and country - the people he encountered, the events he experienced, the food he ate and, especially, the movies he saw. The markers on his journey reveal new ways for us, as fellow New Zealanders, to see where we stand, in this country and in the world, and to understand and recognise the places that give us a sense of belonging. This book also offers us a novel way of looking back at the extraordinary social changes that have swept through New Zealand in recent decades.
Table of contents: title: Nuhaka : the skies were not cloudy all day; title: Napier : stalag by the sea; title: Christchurch : escape to the far country; title: Boston : the wild, wild east; title: Greyhound world : diesal-powered pilgrimage; title: Gisbourne : an unfamiliar home; title: Auckland : when believig was easier; title: Geneva : life on the moon; title: Eastern Europe : watching the watchers; title: East Africa : swallowed by the landscape; title: In the skies : no place for people; title: Dundedin : home to where I hadn't been; title: Blackball the centre on the edge; title: Afterword : a pause in the journey.