Edward Kanze
Auteur van Notes from New Zealand: A Book of Travel and Natural History
Over de Auteur
Edward Kanze, writer, photographer, & naturalist, is the author of "Notes from New Zealand," "Wild Life: The Remarkable Lives of Ordinary Animals," & "The World of John Burroughs: The Life & Work of One of America's Greatest Naturalists." He writes a weekly column for the Hersam Acorn Newspapers & toon meer is a member of the John Burroughs Association, based at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He lives in Saranac Lake, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Adirondack (Excelsior Editions) 1 exemplaar
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- 8
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- 104
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- #184,481
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- 3.9
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- 4
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- 12
It is best read with a device at hand, since there are no illustrations and this will whet your appetite for the described Australian animals and scenes.
The only reason I’m not rating it higher is that the author did not endear himself to the reader… or at least not to this reader. He seemed at turns ungrateful, whiny, pretentious ( could have done without the Odyssey frame) judgmental and more than a bit of a mooch.
It is a very difficult thing for a white man to comment on imperialism and the fate of the Aborigines and I don’t quite think this author pulled it off.… (meer)