Robin Hyde

This man is the biggest, laziest, rottenest, most troublesome— And in the trenches he’s one of the best soldiers I ever had.’ Passport to Hell is the story of James Douglas Stark—Starkie—and his war. Journalist and novelist Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his ‘queer true terrible story’. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, author and politician, as ‘the most important New Zealand war book yet published’. Born in Southland and finding himself in early trouble with the law, the young Starkie tricked his way into a draft in 1914 by means of a subterfuge involving whisky and tea. In his subsequent chequered career in Egypt, Gallipoli, Armentières, the Somme, Ypres, he showed himself ‘a soldier and not a soldier’, with a ‘contempt of danger and discipline alike’. Hyde took the raw horrors, respites and reversals of Starkie’s experiences and composed a work of literature much greater than a mere documentary of war. She portrays a man carousing in the brothels of Cairo and the estaminets of Flanders; looting a dead man’s money-belt and filching beer from the Tommies; attempting to shoot a sergeant through a lavatory door in a haze of absinthe, yet carrying his wounded captain back across No Man’s Land; a man recommended for the V.C. and honoured for his bravery – but also subject to nine court martials. It is a portrait of a singular individual – ‘something of a visionary’, in Hyde’s words – who has also been described as the quintessential New Zealand soldier. And against the contradictory elements of Starkie’s character, Hyde shows a war machine that preaches ‘Thalt shall do no murder’ one moment and sends men over the top the following day to kill. Robin Hyde was one of New Zealand’s true literary trailblazers, and in this book she redefined the parameters of novel and memoir. In its psychological acuity and emotional depth, Passport to Hell is one of the finest

Passport to Hell

The Life History of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand

Check to Your King

Benjamin Jowett

Church Missionary Society

Charles Philip Hippolytus Baron De Thierry

Samuel Marsden

Dandeson Coates

Literary Manuscript

Novel about the life of Charles Baron de Thierry.

Check to your king

Gillian Boddy

Jacqueline D. Matthews

"... This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out of print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency with makes them relevant to us all.The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself." -- Back cover.

Robin Hyde, Journalist

Disputed Ground

G Pearce

癒されるイラストで心を落ち着かせたいですか？かわいくてふわふわした動物の赤ちゃんの世界に夢中になりたい？あるいは、家にいながらにして動物の世界を体験したいと思いませんか？そんなあなたには、この本がおすすめです。 この素晴らしい塗り絵は、愛すべき動物の赤ちゃんの世界を紹介しています。50点以上の素晴らしいイラストが収録されており、あなたのアーティストとしての才能を発揮して、愛らしい動物たちに鮮やかな色を与えてください。 この本は、幼児、子供、ティーンエイジャーなど、すべての年齢層に最適な塗り絵です。塗り絵をすることで、一日のストレスを解消したり、気分を高めたり、マインドフルネスを実践したりすることができます。 塗り絵の詳細 50種類の手書きの絵が収録されており、あなたの芸術的意欲を刺激します 別々に印刷されたシートは、にじみを防ぎ、お気に入りの作品を簡単に取り出して飾ることができます。 マーカー、ジェルペン、色鉛筆、サインペン、水彩絵の具に対応しています。 シンプルなものから複雑なものまで、あらゆるレベルの人に対応したデザインが揃っています。 塗り絵を楽しみながら、何時間も瞑想にふけることができます。 シームレスな片面紙に高品質なイラストが描かれており、世界中のぬりえファンに最適な一冊です。ペン、鉛筆、マーカーの種類を問わず、心を和ませてくれる愛らしい絵柄は、きっと忘れられない体験になることでしょう。 今すぐ購入して、動物の赤ちゃんに会いに行きましょう。

信じられないほどキュートで愛らしい50の赤ちゃん動物と農場をフィーӠ

50匹の動物の赤ちゃんぬりえブック

The Godwits Fly

Follow this distinguished author down the rabbit hole as she discovers the barbaric realities of the Japanese occupation of China in the late 1930s. A war that would eventually merge with World War Two is painted with the lyrical prose that only Robin Hyde could deliver. Hyde is a lone female journalist desperately evading the Japanese censors to send her accounts to Woman To-Day. She was the very first female journalist to visit these parts of China during this time. She encounters death, poverty, sickness and brutality as well as pockets of kindness on her journey. Experience this once in a lifetime adventure with Robin Hyde as your guide into the unknown and exotic. A treasure to read.

Dragon Rampant

"A full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet active in the 1930s, is presented in this book. The 300 poems chosen show Hyde's growth as a poet and her response to the painful events of her personal life and to the political and social world around her. The poems are remarkable both for their acute observation of the physical and emotional world and for their powerful prophetic and visionary elements."

Robin Hyde

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