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| Title: | Detours -- A Generation On
: A Journey Through Small-Town New Zealand |
| Author: | Neville Peat |
| ISBN: | 1877372390 : 9781877372391 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x235mm |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | .422 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Otago Press - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | New Zealand: Travel writing: Cycling: Biography & autobiography: general |
Summer, 1981. A young Neville Peat set out from Cape Reinga on his new 10-speed bike 'Blue, aiming to cycle through small-town New Zealand from north to south, all the way to Stewart Island. The week before Easter, he reached his destination. He wrote a book about it, Detours: A journey through small-town New Zealand, which sold lots of copies and was broadcast on radio. Many times in the intervening years, usually on anniversaries of the journey -- ten years, fifteen years, twenty years -- he wished to try a repeat journey, but life held other challenges. Now, as a leading author and in the age of the personal computer and cell phone, a very different world, he has revisited many of the towns and regions, not on a bicycle, but by car. In Detours -- A generation on, he reflects once again on how small-town New Zealand is doing.
