History Boy: Nicholas Tarling A Memoir

Author: Tarling, Nicholas

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Price : 30.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781877399459
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Publication date : 01 January 2009
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Nicholas Tarling is an historian of Southeast Asia who has pursued a variety of other interests as well. Known to many New Zealanders after nearly 30 years as a professor at the University of Auckland, he has also been a braodcaster, an actor, a critic and an opera buff. Drawing on letters and diaries, the author recalls, with at least something of an historian's objectivity, some of the people, places and problems he encountered - sometimes with pain, sometimes with pleasure. As a child in the 1930s he was described as a fair-headed cherub who could do no wrong'. A colleague in the 1970s remarked on his 'wisdom, low cunning and dry wit'.

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