Book Author Richard Wolfe
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Cultural author and avid Kiwiana collector Richard Wolfe explores the evolution of ‘kiwi’ from the Māori name of a secretive bird to its many uses today — renaming a fruit native to China, signifying a New Zealander, and a powerful term in national and international branding.
With extensive colour illustrations, photographs and ephemera, and the author’s keen eye for the curious, Kiwi presents some outlandish stories, tales of cultural appropriation and recognition of ‘Kiwi’ around the world.
A popular study on New Zealand identity, this is a book with real international reach.
About the Author
Richard Wolfe is a cultural historian and curator who has written or coauthored some 40 books on themes from the moa to New Zealand art, including Footprints on the Land, Hellhole of the Pacific, and New Zealand’s Lost Heritage. He was a display artist at the Auckland and Canterbury museums, and co-curated the first major exhibition of Kiwiana (a term he helped invent). Richard lives with his artist wife Pamela in Auckland.
Publisher
Oratia Books
Extent
208pp
Format
250 x 185 mm portrait
Binding
Paperback
Category
Non-Fiction
Genre
General Non-Fiction
Publication Date
October 2024
Rights Available:
World excl. ANZ
Rights Agents:
World
Peter Dowling, Oratia Books
peter@oratia.co.nz
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