OUR OWN STORY
FROM TRACK TO HIGHWAY. By Alan Mulgan. Published by Whitcombe &* Tombs, HIS sketch of New Zealand history was written, the author explains, with "American friends in mind," and it was (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) probably begun while those friends were still roaming our streets and frequenting our bookshops. If so, the author has been unlucky. But charity begins at home. We ourselves need the book, and if it had been bought up and carried off before a few thousand New Zealanders had persuaded themselves to buy it, that might have helped the publishers, but it would have been a misfortune for the rest of us. Because very few of us really know our own story, and now that we are in our second century our ignorance is beginning to be dangerous. Besides, it is very difficult to get a clear, concise, accurate, and thoroughly readable book for 4/6; difficult to get a single-volume history at any price; and almost impossible to get one that the man in the street can (or will) read. Well, here it is; and if you do not get a cloth and board binding, you get this story, which more than makes amends: "If Selwyn ever heard it he must have appreciated this story of a hard-bitten old salt who watched the bishop (Selwyn) sailing a boat up the Auckland harbour against a_ strong wind, ‘Look at him,’ commented the admiring expert. ‘It’s enough to make a man a bloody Christian!’"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 12
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252OUR OWN STORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 12
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