Journey in the sunny south
A review of H. V. Morton’s A Traveller in Southern Italy. The critic surveys Morton’s portrait of the Mezzogiorno, praising his narrative through Naples and Pompeii while noting a lack of social history, and highlighting vivid vignettes of people, legends, and places from Brindisi to Squillace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
HH. V. Morton
Methuen
Morton
Greece
Brindisi
Virgil
Constantinople
Via Appia
Homer
Apollo
Athens
Ovid
Magna Graecia
Robert Guiscard
Frederick H. Gregory VII
Cassa del Mezzogiorno
Australia
Rome
Tiber
Sybaris
Arthur
Morgan le Fay
King Bomba
Garibaldi
Cavour
Milan
Messina
Naples
South
Hamilton
Emma
Nelson
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Midlands
England
Capri
Augustus
Gregory VII
Salerno
Padre Pio
Cannae
Marton
Squillace
Cassiodorus
Bohemund
Frederick II
Verdi
Attila
Sydney
Venice
Monumentality and the Plastic Garden Vision of Fred Nerk
Fred Nerk, a town planner famed for ring road schemes, pursued vast concrete vistas in formal triumphal styles. He ordered trees and gardens wrapped in plastic to preserve his sight, but rivals and critics warned that his obsession would topple the monumentality he sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Nerk
Fred
Christe
Carillon Tower
Flower survey and cultural works catalog notes
A collage of 1960s era book listings highlights Flowers of Europe by Oleg Polunin with 2400 species, a practical arts appreciation volume, The Writer in Australia by John Barnes, Lester Pearson on Peace in the Family of Man, and The Pattern of New Zealand Culture on a McLeod study. Prices range from $1.60 to $12.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flowers of
Europe
Oleg Polunin
Arébonere
Incair
Gauldia
Australia
John Barnes
Lester Pearson
Reith
Canada
New Zealand
Ernest Hemingway
Carlos Baker
Arnold Toynbee
Macarthur
Gavin Long
Priestley
John Stanley James
Michael Cannon
Lewis Chester
Godfrey Hodgson
Bruce Page
Stan Kelly
Canberra
W. H. Nicholls
Hal Missingham
Missingham
James Gleeson
Alan McCulloch
Beachside Christmas gift guide 1877 Hash critique
A nostalgic note surveys Hash a controversial 1877 Australian Christmas book edited by Garnet Walch. It jabs at its sensational mix of tales poems and racy stories while listing forthcoming fiction and biographies by Kingsley Amis Pearl Buck Daphne Du Maurier John Fowles and many more with prices and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Garnet Walch
Fhring Estes
Tasma
Marcus Clarke
George Darell
Eek
Jey Amis
Hertfordshire
Madame Liang
Pearl Buck
Julian Gloag
Jack Hoxie
Jon Cleary
John Fowles
England
Jacqueline Susann
Miss Susann
Philip Roth
Portnoy
Thorskald
Tony Morp
Kaunda's humanism put to the test
Review of Richard Hall's Kaunda's Humanism Put to the Test and M Lee's African Armies and Civil Order notes Zambia's postcolonial push for majority rule, Wilson government's Rhodesia policy, and the economic toll on Zambia. Hall, a longtime Zambia journalist, argues British and West politics shaped Zambia's copper industry decline and social strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanada
Richard Hall
Hodder and Stoughton
M. Lee
Chatto and Windus
Rhodesia
Wilson
Copper
Zambia
Africa
Anthony Sampson
Hall
Britain
Kaunda
Lusaka
Criti
Dominic Mulaisho
Judith Hart
Commonwealth Office
Pinkville and the Vietnam War Machine
The text critiques US air war in Vietnam, arguing the computerised targeting system drives indiscriminate slaughter. It details Project Phoenix plans to eliminate 33000 civilians and describes the Saigon High Command using data to unleash “extermination” raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Alt Bien Hoa
America
Vietnam
Kaunda principles and African politics in transition
Kenneth Kaunda champions humanitarianism or humanism rooted in Christian and socialist ethics, opposing colonialism and racial discrimination in Southern Africa. The text contrasts his aims with Zambia’s struggles at home and analyzes Lee’s study of African armies shaping new governments and employment, noting the complexities of small organisations driving violence in African politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodesia
Kenneth Kaunda
Gandhi
Kaunda
Wilson
Zambia
Africa
Lee
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Journey In
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H. V. Morton
Adelaide
Morgan
H. Gilbert
Teenie Os
J. J. Eddy
Islands of
Solomon
Colin Jack Hinton
Solomon Islands
Eliot
Crawford
Kimberley
North-Westernera
South Pacific
Bernard Smith
Pacific
South Seas
Oxford University Press
Thomas Kenneally
Antarctic
Hett
Richard Condon
Graham Greene
Hans Hac
George Johnston
Meredith
Jack
Paul Gallico
Harold Macmillan
Antonia Fraser
Krupp
William Manchester
P. W. Glob
Denmark
Ronald Pearsall
Bvd
Prince of Pleasure
J. B
Maurice Dunnevy
Times of
African Development
John Dunham
Pinkville
Frank Harvey
FAC
ZYG
LTO
Lan Street
Fyshwick
4.C.T
Queanbeyan
Cassidy Arcade Verity Pty
Crawford Street
Cassidy Arced
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