Description
RETURN TO OPEN COUNTRY
OPEN COUNTRY is something built into
the fibre of every good New Zealan-
der, wherever he or she may be. It’s
the land of the Delectable Mountains,
of crisp little townships and of snug
villages, of farms which grow good
human beings as well as crops and
pastures.
“Open Country” is the title too of
Jim Henderson’s weekly radio pro-
gramme where a host of speakers,
drawn from every corner of both
Islands, tell tall tales and modest ones
of what this country means to them.
They offer high drama and homespun
humour as they look back on.the men
and women, the dogs and stock, the
high adventures and the lovely, fleeting
moments of childhood they have
known.
In 1965 Reeds published the first
Open Country collection; it was re-
printed in 1966 and again in 1967,
and this’ entirely new book, Return to
Open Country, presents the same gen-
erous harvest of “the best of the best
radio programme”.
In this book we meet old friends
again, and make new ones, and can
savour the work of the new artist,
David Cowie who, like Jim Henderson,
knows and loves New Zealand’s open
country and its people and their ways.
In this book are many joys. We
share with its contributors the ex-
periences they relate; and, their stories
are a passport and a free ticket to what
all good New Zealanders desire: a
Return to Open Country.
Hardcover, 250 pages. In good preloved
condition with the exception of multiple
tears to the dust cover, which have been
repaired with tape.