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Story: Non-fiction

Contents

  1. Story summary

  2. Beginnings

  3. Frontier reports

  4. Settlement

  5. Becoming at home

  6. Men in non-fiction

  7. Questioning orthodoxies

  8. External links and sources

All images and media

From page 1 - Beginnings

Exploring Cook

Exploring Cook

Studying interaction

Studying interaction

Stephenson Percy Smith, 1886

Stephenson Percy Smith, 1886

The Aryan Maori

The Aryan Maori

From page 2 - Frontier reports

Barnet Burns

Barnet Burns

An account of New Zealand

An account of New Zealand

An ideal settlement

An ideal settlement

Manners and customs

Manners and customs

Old New Zealand

Old New Zealand

From page 3 - Settlement

The fall of Kororāreka

The fall of Kororāreka

Samuel Butler's New Zealand home

Samuel Butler's New Zealand home

Two of Buller's birds

Two of Buller's birds

George Grey's Polynesian mythology

George Grey's Polynesian mythology

Blanche Baughan's travel writing

Blanche Baughan's travel writing

From page 4 - Becoming at home

The poet's progress

The poet's progress

Filming Janet Frame's life

Filming Janet Frame's life

Ghost dance

Ghost dance

Herbert Guthrie-Smith at Tutira

Herbert Guthrie-Smith at Tutira

From page 5 - Men in non-fiction

John Mulgan

John Mulgan

Unclimbed New Zealand

Unclimbed New Zealand

Passport to hell

Passport to hell

A man's country?

A man's country?

From page 6 - Questioning orthodoxies

Autobiography of a family

Autobiography of a family

'An unfortunate experiment'

'An unfortunate experiment'

Perspectives on history: Ranginui Walker

Perspectives on history: Ranginui Walker

Judith Binney

Judith Binney

Environmental writing

Environmental writing

Blue smoke

Blue smoke

How to cite this page:

Alex Calder, 'All images and media', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/non-fiction/media (accessed 29 March 2023)

Story by Alex Calder, published 22 Oct 2014

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