Civilisation - by Steve Braunias (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of New Zealand Book Award for Non-fiction. Steve Braunias travels off the grid to report weird goings-on in small-town New Zealand. A book full of fascinating, sometimes disturbing, stories, from Kawakawa to Mosgiel, and across the seas in Samoa and Antarctica - people's lives, loves, aspirations, and sometimes dark secrets.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Civilisation</em>, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Non-fiction in 2013, is brilliant New Zealand journalist Steve Braunias at the peak of his powers, the scavenger of social lodestone, rich, fascinating and sometimes disturbing stories of settlements - from Kawakawa in the north, to Mosgiel in the south, and Samoa and Antarctica over the seas - and the people who live there, their lives, loves, aspirations, and sometimes dark secrets. </p><p>This is a book that will enthrall all lovers of great travel writing and outrageous social comment. Jonathan Lorie, director of Travellers' Tales Festival, London, calls Braunias 'a writer the whole world would like to hear about'. He has won over 20 journalism awards, writes a weekly column for <em>The New Zealand Herald</em>, is books editor of leading culture website<em>The Spinoff</em>, and author of eight critically acclaimed books.</p><p><em>"For three years, whenever I could, I went to places no one went to, drawn to their averageness, their nothingness, their banal and exhilarating New Zealandness - small towns, unremarkable suburbs, frozen bases and equatorial outposts ... wherever there was any sign of New Zealand civilisation. I chose them at random. I'd look at a map and say out loud, 'There.' People said, 'Where?' The next question they asked was, 'Why?' They especially asked that in the places I visited. They couldn't believe anyone would find where they lived of any interest. But the places were probably New Zealand at its best. I wanted to go and live in just about every one." - </em>Steve Braunias</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In this funny, moving, sometimes terrifying book, our country reveals itself; people and places are never as they first appear. Full of astonishing phrases, insights, and provocations, <i>Civilisation</i> is like a series of great New Zealand novels bound up in one extraordinary book. --Emily Perkins, author, <i>The Forrests</i><br><br>Provocative, literate, disrespectful . . . eminently readable. --<i>Press </i><br><br>Steve Braunias could be a character in Chaucer's <i>Canterbury Tales</i>, traipsing to places like St. Bathans and Mercer, inviting himself into homes to seek out those little nuggets. More often than not, he finds them. --Wallace Chapman, radio and television host, <i>Back Benches</i><br><br>Steve Braunias shares with us the intimacies of people's lives, their thoughts and beliefs, the values of their communities, and so the deep meanings of places. . . . A writer the whole world would like to hear about. --Jonathan Lorie, author, <i>The Traveller's Handbook</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Steve Braunias</b> is the editor-in-residence at Wintec School of Media Arts in Hamilton, a writer for many primetime TV series, and a regular panelist on TVNZ7's <i>The Good Word</i>. He is the recipient of a Montana Book Award and more than 20 journalism awards as well as the author of several books, including <i>Fish of the Week</i>, <i>Roosters I Have Known</i>, and <i>Smoking in Antarctica</i>.
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