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The Mobil guides were by Diana and Jeremy Pope. They researched them in the Turnbull Library when I worked there and every liberal home had copies. Probably many still have.
Jeremy Pope is an anti-corruption crusader and travel writer and is an officer of the NZ Order of Merit -
Jeremy Pope is an anti-corruption crusader and travel writer and is an officer of the NZ Order of Merit
Thanks for that, the things you learn at PAS. I found stuff in the Mobil guide about the area I grew up in that I wish I'd known back in the day.
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I carry the Mobil Guides in the van - they're still useful.
Giovanni - I have spare copy of the Shadbolt/Shell Guide (I discovered 4 of them in mint condition in the best 2ndhand bookshop in Oamaru
(which is simply known as The Best Shop by family, because it deals in a helluva lot rmore than books...)would you mind sending me your address again? It's in this machine somewhere but.... -
The Mobil guides were by Diana and Jeremy Pope. They researched them in the Turnbull Library...
They also researched them by driving from one end of the country to the other and criss-crossing from one side to the other - one island at a time. And did it again for each new edition.
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That personally-driving-the-length&breadth bit really is the value in those guides- Shadbolt is more literary traveller than literate traverser-
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Sayana, as I remember they researched in various institutions for several months (the winter?) and went travelling (summer?) The resources they used were things like the detailed card indexes of New Zealand place names compiled by earlyTurnbull Librarian Johannes Anderson, and the NZ foot traveller AH Reed, and every little school or church that had ever published a history. They were also innovative in bringing pre-pakeha history and geography into the mainstream.
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would you mind sending me your address again?
Aw, you... it's done. I had half a mind of posting it here, so that everybody could send me things.
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As someone who once received an extremely dead eel from a rellie who had the best of intentions in sending it (I'd mentioned that I was missing real eels in Oz so he sent it to my home address while I was overseas for nearly 6 weeks)- possibly not?
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Yes - live eels only please, folks.
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(pops one into a slightly chilled padded nylon tube - goodness, they get angry at that! Wheee! away it goes!)
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@ Hilary
That sounds about right - when they did the last edition of the South Island volume (IIRC) Diana and her son Sam did the driving section over one summer.
I've heard they're doing a new version in a different format.
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Giovanni - I have spare copy of the Shadbolt/Shell Guide
Brilliant! I won't reveal the artist who did the cover painting - that can be a surprise for you.
I found a 1976 edition in a Christchurch bookshop, but by then the paintings of each region had been replaced with scenic photographs.
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