Disputed Ground - Robin Hyde, Journalist

VUP, 1991. Some shelf wear and fading. May have previous owner name inside.
Novelist, poet, journalist, Robin Hyde increasingly has been recognised as a major figure in New Zealand letters. This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out-of-print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency which makes them relevant to us all. The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself...