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Final Approaches: A Memoir
Gerald Hensely
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Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; KNV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 100 x 100 x 100. Weight in Grams: 195.
This is a memoir of a distinguished senior civil servant written in a tradition of wit, elegance, learning and intelligence more familiar in Europe than in our own literary history. In a career that engaged with international and national dramas at every turn Hensley writes not about himself but about people, the famous and the forgotten; places, from Apia to Singapore to New York; political events, including two coups, one war, one peaceful attainment of independence, several false alarms. His unerring eye for the comic and the absurd is matched always by his insight and good judgement so that we ... Read more
This is a memoir of a distinguished senior civil servant written in a tradition of wit, elegance, learning and intelligence more familiar in Europe than in our own literary history. In a career that engaged with international and national dramas at every turn Hensley writes not about himself but about people, the famous and the forgotten; places, from Apia to Singapore to New York; political events, including two coups, one war, one peaceful attainment of independence, several false alarms. His unerring eye for the comic and the absurd is matched always by his insight and good judgement so that we ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869403782
SKU
V9781869403782
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99-3
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