BETTER THAN A GUIDE-BOOK
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Articles from the National Geographic Magazine. With 30 colour plates and 257 photographs. National Geographic Society, Washington. HIS handsome volume has been produced by the National Geographic Society at the request of the United States Navy. In other words, it is a guide-book to Australia and New Zealand that neither looks nor reads like a guide-book, and it is to be hoped that it will find its way into our book shops. It is worth buying for the maps alone, but with the photographs thrown in, it
becomes invaluable, Nor is it a disqualification that about 250 of its 300 pages are devoted to Australia, or only about one-sixth to New Zealand. That is as it should be in the circumstances, but 41 out of the 50 pages devoted exclusively to New Zealand are illustrated, and two others are completely filled by maps. In addition, there is an article of 38 pages devoted to "The Making of an Anzac," and although less than a quarter of this is written about New Zealand, there is none of it that New Zealanders will not wish to read. However, the purpose of the book is to reveal Australia and New Zealand to men and women who’ are not themselves natives of those countries, and it is impossible not to envy those into whose hands it falls for the first time,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 14
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235BETTER THAN A GUIDE-BOOK New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 14
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