Gordon McLauchlan
Born
in Dunedin, New Zealand
January 23, 1931
Died
January 26, 2020
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A Short History of New Zealand
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1999
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5 editions
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A Short History of the New Zealand Wars
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Great Tales From New Zealand History
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2005
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3 editions
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The Passionless People. New Zealanders in the 1970s
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Morrieson's Motel
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published
2000
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2 editions
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The Passionless People Revisited: New Zealanders in the 21st Century
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published
2012
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2 editions
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The Life and Times of Auckland: The Colourful Story of a City
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published
2008
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A Short History of Farming in New Zealand
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published
2020
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Great Tales from Rural New Zealand
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The Big Con: The death of the Kiwi dream
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published
1992
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“They have found no evidence of a human presence here before AD 1250, and expert consensus puts arrival at around that time.”
― A Short History of New Zealand
― A Short History of New Zealand
“Royal Navy officer James Cook was despatched into the Pacific by the British government. He was to go to Tahiti to watch and measure the transit of Venus — one of many observations from around the world organised by the Royal Society to better measure the distance of the sun from the earth.”
― A Short History of New Zealand
― A Short History of New Zealand
“New Zealanders remain polite,hard-working, superficially cheerful, and unnervingly compliant and complaisant. And we remain dismissive of anyone who makes a fuss about anything”
― The Passionless People Revisited: New Zealanders in the 21st Century
― The Passionless People Revisited: New Zealanders in the 21st Century
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