Kiwis Might Fly: Around New Zealand on Two Big Wheels
Registered by Trinibell of Calw, Baden-Württemberg Germany on 8/23/2011
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Blurb: When Polly Evans read a survey claiming that the last bastion of masculinity, the real Kiwi bloke, was about to breathe his last, she was seized by a sense of foreboding. Abandoning the London winter she took off on a motorbike for the windswept beaches and golden plains of New Zealand, hoping to root out some examples of this endangered species for posterity. But her challenges didn’t stop at the men.
Just weeks after passing her bike test, Polly rode from Auckland’s glitzy Viaduct Basin to the vineyards of Hawkes Bay and on to the Southern Alps. She found wild kiwis in the dead of night, kayaked among dolphins at dawn, and spent an evening on a remote hillside with a sheep-shearing gang. As she travelled, Polly reflected on the Maori warriors who carved their enemies’ bones into cutlery, the pioneer family who lived in a tree, and the flamboyant gold miners who lit their pipes with five-pound notes, and wondered how their descendents could have become pathologically obsessed with helpfulness and Coronation Street.
The author of the highly acclaimed It’s Not About the Tapas reaches some unexpected conclusions about the new New Zealand man – and finds that evolution has taken an unlikely twist.
Just weeks after passing her bike test, Polly rode from Auckland’s glitzy Viaduct Basin to the vineyards of Hawkes Bay and on to the Southern Alps. She found wild kiwis in the dead of night, kayaked among dolphins at dawn, and spent an evening on a remote hillside with a sheep-shearing gang. As she travelled, Polly reflected on the Maori warriors who carved their enemies’ bones into cutlery, the pioneer family who lived in a tree, and the flamboyant gold miners who lit their pipes with five-pound notes, and wondered how their descendents could have become pathologically obsessed with helpfulness and Coronation Street.
The author of the highly acclaimed It’s Not About the Tapas reaches some unexpected conclusions about the new New Zealand man – and finds that evolution has taken an unlikely twist.
I thoroughly enjoyed touring through New Zealand with Polly Evans. It was a varying and sometimes even unexpected journey and i felt almost sorry to say good bye to both. Maybe i should travel with Polly through Spain next?
Journal Entry 3 by Trinibell at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, August 20, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (8/22/2017 UTC) at A BookCrosser, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Kiwis might as well fly from Germany to Sweden.
Happy Reading!
Happy Reading!
The Kiwis have landed. It looks very interesting, and I look forward to reading it. Thank you!
A nice little read. Not so much a hunt for "the last bastion of masculinity, the real Kiwi bloke" as the author claims, but still entertaining, and it inspires to further travels. I'm happy I read it. Thank you, Trinibell, for being so gracious and sending it to me. Now, it will travel to a friend of mine who likes things Kiwi. Hopefully, she hasn't read it yet.
It is difficult to write a travel journal with a twist about travels in New Zealand due to the fact that so many have had similar experiences before.
I am to post it to hazelgreen tomorrow Saturday.
Thank you for this booookkkk
I couldn t really enjoy this book. Its funny but also to boring and technically. So I didnt finished.
Journal Entry 10 by Marzipanmädchen at Unknown in Unknown, -- Wild Released somewhere in state -- New Zealand on Friday, November 8, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (11/8/2019 UTC) at Unknown in Unknown, -- Wild Released somewhere in state -- New Zealand
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Und das allerschönste am Bookcrossing ist, wenn eine FinderIN einen Eintrag zu dem Buch macht: wo das Buch gefunden wurde, ob er es lesen möchte oder nicht und wie die Reise des Buches jetzt weitergeht.
Wir kriegen dann manchmal Gänsehaut vor Freude und erzählen uns gegenseitig von besonders schönen oder lustigen Einträgen.
Du kannst dabei völlig anonym bleiben, aber wir freuen uns auch über jeden, der sich bei Bookcrossing anmeldet und in unserer fröhlichen Community mitmischt.
Auf bald?!