28 Dec 2012

Steve Braunias visits the fringes of NZ civilisation

From Summer Noelle, 10:07 am on 28 December 2012
Steve Braunias

Steve Braunias Photo: Steve Braunias

Writer and journalist Steve Braunias has gone in search of civilisation in the small towns of New Zealand.

He mooched around the less celebrated settlements of this country, the Mercers, the Mosgiels, the Wainuiomatas, missing nothing, noting down everything.

These travels were compiled in the book Civilisation: 20 Places on the Edge of the World.

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