World of the Written Word

Reflections by award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett, author of many books about the sea

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

IN THE NICK OF TIME

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  From Stuff The National Library has halted plans to export 600,000 books to an overseas-based online archive after sustained criticism fro...

DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM

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  PROUDLY PUBLISHED BY OLD SALT PRESS A raging hurricane. A tiny fishing village in a distant land. A London nightclub dancer stumbles into ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

TUPAIA

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  My biography of the great Polynesian navigator, priest, and diplomat, TUPAIA, has been out for a while now, and has gone into several edit...
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Saturday, November 20, 2021

THE CHESTNUT MAN

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  ONE HUNDRED PERCENT APPROVAL ON ROTTEN TOMATOES??? Surely not!  Rotten Tomatoes collects all published reviews and rates a film accordingl...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Notice to all authors from the Authors Guild concerning the mass giveaway of New Zealand National Library books

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  FROM THE AUTHORS GUILD Despite  strong opposition  from the New Zealand Society of Authors and international groups including the Authors ...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Capitani

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  Since subscribing to Netflix, I have become intrigued with foreign TV series.  I have always enjoyed foreign films -- 4 Minutes , a German...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Time Warp?

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  AMAZON is definitely losing the plot. To my amazement, a book review I have no recollection of posting, as it was so long ago, has finally...
Friday, July 16, 2021

National Library of New Zealand partners with internet pirates

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  The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc (NZSA) and the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o ...
Friday, July 9, 2021

"I have fallen out of love"...

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  ... with the National Library of New Zealand, that is. For too many years, since the National Library in Wellington, New Zealand, was take...
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