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Book When the Tour Came to Auckland

Download or read book When the Tour Came to Auckland written by Geoff Chapple and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘At 2.40pm Patu charged. A human tank. The first time during the tour that a protest squad charged police lines with the intention of breaking through . . .’ The Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 provoked the biggest mass protests in New Zealand history. For two months tens of thousands of New Zealanders took to the streets every week to register their opposition to the tour. In When the Tour Came to Auckland, Geoff Chapple, author of 1981: The Tour, describes the dramatic events in Auckland as a light aircraft flour-bombed Eden Park and protesters battled police in the streets of Mt Eden in the tour’s violent conclusion. Includes a new introduction prepared especially for this BWB Text by Geoff Chapple.

Book My Nz Story  Stop the Tour

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  • Author : Bill Nagelkerke
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781775437178
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book My Nz Story Stop the Tour written by Bill Nagelkerke and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing on Our Bones

Download or read book Dancing on Our Bones written by Trevor Lawson Richards and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner Trevor Richards has written this history of New Zealand's contribution to the fight against racism and apartheid in South Africa. The story of the protests is vividly told - but it is not an account of one man's battle against the system - "it is a serious history of a crucial part of our recent past."

Book Hold the Line

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  • Author : Kerry Harrison
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 9780473559465
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Hold the Line written by Kerry Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1981 and the New Zealand is about to host the Springboks from South Africa for a national rugby tour. A well-supported protest movement pitches against a national of die-hard rugby supporters. Despite growing public protest, the Government and Rugby Union are adamant the tour will proceed. Beth returns from London. Her World War 2 veteran father is a rugby fanatic, her brother becomes a protestor embroiled in street violence. She studied law and meets Viktor who, unknown to her, is a member of the notorious Police Red Squad. What will happen to their polarised relationship in a country where the very survival of civil order is at risk? In this fast-paced novel, the nuances and tensions of the infamous 1981 Springbok Tour are probed and laid bare.

Book 1981  the Tour

Download or read book 1981 the Tour written by Geoff Chapple and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flashpoint

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  • Author : Derek Charles Catsam
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-08-28
  • ISBN : 1538144700
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Flashpoint written by Derek Charles Catsam and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago, a South African rugby tour in the United States became a crucial turning point for the nation’s burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of American foreign policy. In Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement, Derek Charles Catsam tells the fascinating story of the Springbok’s 1981 US tour and its impact on the country’s anti-apartheid struggle. The US lagged well behind the rest of the Western world when it came to addressing the vexing question of South Africa’s racial policies, but the rugby tour changed all that. Those who had been a part of the country’s tiny anti-apartheid struggle for decades used the visit from one of white South Africa’s most cherished institutions to mobilize against both apartheid sport and the South African regime more broadly. Protestors met the South African team at airports, chanted outside their hotels, and courted arrests at matches, which ranged from the bizarre to the laughable, with organizers going to incredible lengths to keep their locations secret. In telling the story of how a sport little appreciated in the United States nonetheless became ground zero for the nation’s growing anti-apartheid movement, Flashpoint serves as a poignant reminder that sports and politics have always been closely intertwined.

Book Storm Out of Africa

Download or read book Storm Out of Africa written by Richard Shears and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels

Download or read book Travels written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.

Book Barbed Wire Boks

Download or read book Barbed Wire Boks written by Donald John Cameron and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protest Tautohetohe

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  • Author : Stephanie Gibson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780994146045
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Protest Tautohetohe written by Stephanie Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For a small, peaceful democracy in the South Pacific, New Zealand has had its fair share of major protest issues, and over the decades New Zealanders have become adept at mobilising around causes. This richly illustrated book brings together the objects made by protesters to proclaim and symbolise their causes and their struggles. It is a vivid reflection of 250 years of resistance and persistence"--Publisher information.

Book The Last Miles

Download or read book The Last Miles written by George Cole and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century

Book They re Playing Our Song

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  • Author : Marvin Hamlisch
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780573681059
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book They re Playing Our Song written by Marvin Hamlisch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully, but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course, there's a happy ending.

Book My New Zealand Story

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  • Author : Eva Wong Ng
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781775435778
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book My New Zealand Story written by Eva Wong Ng and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1942, in an area of the city known as Chinatown where the descendants of the Chinese miners and market gardeners gathered together to maintain their culture and provide a sense of community. New Zealand is at war when Silvey starts her diary, but for Silvey this is just a backdrop to the main issues of her worldthe closure of her school and the arrival of Chinese-American soldiers

Book 1981

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780589015398
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rocking Horse Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Nixon
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 1869790936
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Rocking Horse Road written by Carl Nixon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than a murder mystery, this powerful novel is about coming of age and loss of innocence. The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading up to Christmas, 1980. It’s an event that makes a huge impact on all those who live along Rocking Horse Road, which runs through the Spit, a long ‘finger of bone-dry sand’ between the ocean and the estuary. It’s an event that for one hot summer brings together a group of fifteen-year-old boys and then keeps them linked for the rest of their lives. Evolving from Nixon’s celebrated short story, this compelling novel shows New Zealand turning upon itself during the 1981 Springbok Tour. It examines how early events can influence the rest of our lives, and probes ideas of community, collective memory and story-telling.

Book The 1981 Springbok Tour Protests

Download or read book The 1981 Springbok Tour Protests written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: