Civilisation: Twenty Places At The Edge Of The World: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World

In small-town suburban New Zealand with its seemingly average people can be found many stories of lives loves aspirations and sporadically a dark secret or two. As reported by a much-followed columnist and awarded journalist these rich fascinating and occasionally disturbing stories of settlements follow people living throughout New Zealand from Kawakawa in the north to Mosgiel in the south and Samoa and Antarctica overseas. Funny moving and at times terrifying this book provides a platform from which New Zealand reveals itself and proves that rarely are people and places as they first appear.