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The Expatriates: 2017 by Edmond, Martin

ISBN: 9781988533179 PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books FORMAT: Paperback 0 PUBLICATION DATE: 9.11.2017 DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 15.2 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John PlattMills, radical lawyer and political activist; and Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian, scholar and protector of culture. These were men, born in remote New Zealand, who achieved fame in Europeeven as they were lost sight of at home. Men who became, from the point of view of their country of origin, expatriates. A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of these four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this awardwinning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealand's place in the world, then and now.

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