Looking for the Phoenix: A Memoir - Softcover

Oliver, W. H.

9781877242984: Looking for the Phoenix: A Memoir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877242985 ISBN 13: 9781877242984

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books, 2004

W. H. Oliver, a writer, editor, professor, and central figure in New Zealand's intellectual landscape, reflects here on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him. A warm portrait is painted of his Cornish parents, whose experiences with immigration, rural work, the depression, and Labour activism are recounted. Oliver shares how he avidly absorbed education and progressed from rural schools to Oxford University. This wide-ranging account tells of ancestry and early childhood, the influences of feminism, friendship, marriage, and family, while acknowledging the broader scope of history and the development of New Zealand. This is a poet writing about history, and an historian writing autobiography-perceptive, wry, and sometimes painfully honest.

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About the Author:

W. H. Oliver is an emeritus professor at Massey University and has taught at Victoria and Canterbury Universities. He is the author of Out of Season and the editor of The Oxford History of New Zealand and The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

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