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Return to China
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Dan Davin
" ... Dan Davin (b. 1913) grew up in Invercargill, and was educated at Catholic schools, Otago University and Balliol College, Oxford. He served throughout the [Second World] War chiefly as an [intelligence officer] of the New Zealand Division. In 1945 he joined the staff of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, and in 1978 retired from the position of Academic Publisher to the University. Since the death of Frank Sargeson [in 1982], Davin is probably the senior New Zealand writer of fiction still active: he has publkished seven novels, three volumes of short stories, and a ... book of recollections. Though he has been expatriate since 1936 his chosen themes - growing up in Southland, New Zealanders at war, post-war tensions, exile and return - make him a faithful and eloquent recorder of the experienhce of his generation in war and peace."--Back cover.
Capes of China Slide Away
James Bertram's memoirs are a personal record of his experiences in New Zealand, Britain and China 1910-1980. Educated in New Zealand, he went to England as a Rhodes Scholar and then on to China in 1936, where he became a British correspondent during the Sian Rising and the months leading up to the Japanese invasion. He fought in the brief defence of Hong Kong and spent four years as a POW in Hong Kong and Tokyo. During his years in China he knew almost everyone of political consequence including Mao Tse-tung and developed a lasting affection for the land and its people.
Letters of Thomas Arnold the Younger, 1850-1900
Thomas Arnold, second son of Dr Arnold of Rugby, left England in search of a new life, first in New Zealand and then in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1850. There he became an inspector of schools and married the beautiful Julia Sorrell. The record covered in this second volume of his letters begins at this point and continues with a generous selection of his letters to the end of his life in 1900. The earlier letters give a vivid impression of life in Van Diemen's Land and of his own home life. Arnold holds an interesting, if minor, place in literary and educational history. However, the great strength and fascination of these letters probably lies in their record of the man himself, caught up, sometimes tempestuously, in the movements of his time, particularly in his religious unsettlement and wrestling with Roman Catholicism; and of a marriage in which agonising disagreements on the deepest issues threatened but never overwhelmed the mutual love of both.
First Act in China
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Unconquered
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