Detours: Journey Through Small-town New Zealand - Hardcover

Neville Peat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0723306745 ISBN 13: 9780723306740

Publisher: Whitcoulls Publishers, 1982

Synopsis

Summer, 1981. A youngish Neville Peat set out from Cape Reinga on his imported 10-speed bike ‘Blue’, aiming to cycle through small-town New Zealand from north to south, all the way to Stewart Island. The week before Easter, he reached his destination. He wrote a book about it, Detours: A journey through small-town New Zealand, which sold lots of copies and was broadcast on radio. Many times in the intervening years, usually on anniversaries of the journey – ten years, fifteen years, twenty years – he wished to try a repeat journey, but life held other challenges. Now, as a leading author and in the age of the personal computer and cell phone, a very different world, he has revisited many of the towns and regions, not on a bicycle, but by car. In Detours – A generation on, he reflects once again on how small-town New Zealand is doing.

About this title

About the Author:

Neville Peat is a leading natural history writer, whose prize-winning works include four regional natural history books (co-authored with Brian Patrick) and most recently Kiwi: The People’s Bird. He is the latest recipient of the prestigious Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitcoulls Publishers
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0723306745
• ISBN 13: 9780723306740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Illustrator: Sarah Marston