Notes

Table of contents: The silence beyond -- Being Pakeha -- Contradictions -- On writing Maori history -- Palimpsests and imponderables? -- Back to shul -- What I believe -- Jerusalem, 25 October 1972 -- Tangata whenua : origins and conclusions -- Approaching a distant peak : a biographer discovers Frank Sargeson -- Yet being someone other -- Literary Dunedin : an outsider looks in -- A life touched by angels and shadows -- Janet and the birds -- Remembering Dan and Winnie Davin -- Words at Robin Morrison's funeral -- The kuia's dying day -- Maori and Pakeha : which people and culture has primacy