'I Think I Am Becoming a New Zealander': Letters of J. C. Beaglehole (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780864739025)

J. C. Beaglehole, best known as a historian and Cook scholar, was also a passionate writer of letters. He wrote frequently, at length, and throughout his life, to family, friends and colleagues-- wittily, affectionately, intimately, eruditely, acerbically, and always with an eye to style--and left a large and rich correspondence. This selection, made by his son and biographer, has been chosen to reflect the range of Beaglehole's associations and interests--in history, particularly his scholarly field of Cook and the Pacific, in music, art and architecture, typography and publishing, and friendship--and to showcase his epistolary virtuosity. Writing was J. C. Beaglehole's preferred mode of expression, and his letters, conversational and crafted in equal measure, are a unique window on the mind and character of a remarkably gifted, imaginative, and scholarly man.

Author: Tim Beaglehole
ISBN-10: 0864739028
ISBN-13: 9780864739025
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d