Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2020: New Zealand Adventure

Brian Wilkins shares his experiences of climbing in the Southern Alps and the Himalayas. Wilkins' New Zealand climbing includes the first ascent of the northeast ridge of Mt Aspiring.

The kea, a crow-sized parrot that lives in the mountains of New Zealand, is sometimes comic and at other times a vicious killer. Its true character is a mystery that biologists have debated for more than a century.

This book offers a history of Pureora Forest Park, one of the most significant sites of natural and cultural history interest in New Zealand. Topics include: review of the geological history of the volcanic zone, its flora and fauna, and the history of Maori and European utilization of forest resources.

New Zealanders started hearing things in different ways when new audio technologies arrived from overseas in the late 19th century. Hoar documents the arrival of the first such "talking machines" and their growing place in New Zealanders' public and private lives, through the years of radio to the dawn of television.

This work serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This collection of fourteen essays provides a starting point t for rethinking music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, while providing case-studies on diverse topics including performance, composition, and musical styles.

From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to Marae and rural towns around New Zealand and - commissioned by Maori and Pakeha - painted images of important Maori figures. This book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work.

The discovery of Aotearoa-New Zealand, the last place on Earth aside from the Antarctic to be peopled, is surrounded by myths. Mana Maori explores the histories of the first Polynesians to discover the land, their encounters with Europeans, and the country's subsequent settlement by Westerners.

This book brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to provide a critical and comprehensive account of the complex relationship between the media and Maori culture.

New Treaty, New Tradition provides a timely look at how the resolution of land claims in New Zealand continue to shape Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures alike.

Fox traces the New Zealand coming-of-age genre and its role in cultural change.

This book investigates the transnational nature of film culture through the lens of New Zealand cinema.

Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including the film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings," New Zealand has developed a successful film tourism industry. This book examines New Zealand’s cinematic representation through cinematic tourism.

New Zealand has been mythologized as a land of milk and honey. In this work, Bell and others analyze the myth.

We meet young New Zealanders of the 1960s through their diaries, letters, photographs and drawings. Through these texts, Brickell illustrates the changes in New Zealand's culture over the past two centuries.

A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand's literary traditions from its first European visitors in the eighteenth century to its more diverse literary community in the 20th and 21st century.

This edition includes all three volumes of Janet Frame's autobiography: "To the Is-land," "An Angel at My Table," and "The envoy from Mirror City."

In this novel, Maori writer Patricia Grace tells the story of a small coastal community threatened by profit driven developers.
Find out more about this book at the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

New Zealand Photography Collected illuminates the richness of New Zealand’s photographic tradition, from nineteenth-century portraits and dramatic landscapes to the latest contemporary art photography.

New Zealand's writers comment on their favorite local artists, including Barry Linton, Mary Macfarlane, and Gavin Bishop. Each essay is illustrated by color images of the artist's work chosen by the writer.

“It has been my intention to uncover the personal identity of those women who have heeded their abilities as artists. In short, I wanted to answer the questions of what these women have done and who they are ... The fact that an artist happens to be a woman counts.” - Anne Kirker

Since the late 1980’s New Zealand's wine industry has grown significantly earning an international reputation for quality wines. Howland provides an innovative, multi-disciplinary and critical review of New Zealand through its wine industry.

The Maori slowly moved away from traditionally used fishing tools and implements as they were influenced by European materials and technology. This book traces that trajectory, as well as the complicated history of New Zealand's history of securing and taking access to traditionally Maori held fisheries.