Iain Sharp

Gebundenes Buch

Heaphy

Explorer, Artist, Settler

Beschreibung

Born in England, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross, the first European to explore the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island and a distinguished 19th-century landscape painter in that country is a central figure in colonial history. This book reveals the story of Heaphy's life and art.

Autor

Iain Sharp was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1953 and moved to Auckland, New Zealand in 1961 where he currently resides. He is a poet, critic, historian, journalist, and librarian. From 1995 to 2005 he was the books editor of national weekly the Sunday Star-Times, winning national review awards in 1995, 1996, and 1999. He has published several collections of his own poems, which have appeared in various anthologies including Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance and Mahones. His most recent book is Real Gold: Treasures of the Auckland City Libraries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Auckland University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 229mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9781869404215
• ISBN-10: 1869404211
• Artikelnr.: 26021379