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Stories men tell : New Zealand men talk about their lives/ edited by Neville Aitchison and John Keir.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Mary Egan Publishing, 2015Description: 281 pages : portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780473339098
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version: No title
Contents:
Stability in a world of chaos / James Dale -- Flying in the face of fear / Neville Aitchison -- The importance of focus / Dion Nash -- Childhood in a Japanese POW camp / John de Geus -- Sir Ed was in trouble / Mark Sainsbury -- My African experiences / Graeme Lockery -- Never fall off your motorycle in Bosnia on a Saturday afternoon / John Mather -- The man in the mirror / Carl Howard-Smith -- Saigon sunset / Gordon Ragg -- Could have been a contender / Edmund Manuela -- St Matthew's controversial billboards / Glynn Cardy -- Remembering Phil Warren / Simon Grigg -- Overpaid, over-sexed and over here / Stuart Smith -- Road trip through American South / Brendan Mengel -- Don't I know you? / Ewart Barnsley -- My Atrium programme / Richard Kitt -- A soldier's tale, 1945-2015 / David McGregor -- 'Never tell a fat man he's lazy' / Joe Atkinson -- My Dad / John Bukowski -- The power of books / Bill Francis -- Worth it? / Remko Pootjes -- He's still there in the sparkle in their eyes / Luke Nola -- On first meeting my father / Hugh Garlick -- The barge fleet / Chris Rolfe -- Sarajevo sojourn / Max Adams -- A good spin / Win Charlebois -- An Atrium pensioner's plan to make a difference in Australia / John Earwaker -- Flight of fancy / Don Barron -- Northern Ireland at war with Nazi Germany / Sean McKeown -- Leaky buildings-a tale of our times / Vic Double -- An immigrant's journey / Ivan Ivanovic -- In praise of retirement / Rod Barker -- The ballad of the quiet American / Dwight Whitney -- When are you the happiest? / Jim Haynes -- How to survive as a dinosaur / Tim Fawcett -- Hands-on / Graham Wilson -- Off the grid-growing up in remote Hokianga / Thomas Fletcher -- I had to pinch myself / Mark Gascoigne -- The one member who continues to be a physically bad advertisment for the club / Digby Crompton -- Atrium characters / Sir Ken Stevens -- Reminiscences of a money market dealer / Garry Wycherly -- Cara-lawyer to boat builder / Ian Ross -- Adventures of the textile trade / Brian Rainger -- 'An orchestrated litany of lies' / John Keir -- From Auckland to Newfoundland and back / Gary Lowe -- Glory days / Yeong Kee Teck -- A cautionary tale / Brian Rive -- Growing up in Samoa / Peter Spring -- Magic moments-Rugby World Cup 1995 -- Three aspects of a life / Brian Fitzgerald -- Afterword, Lest we forget / Sean McCombe.
Summary: Extraordinary stories. And ordinary stories. Stories rarely told by men. Revealing. Insightful. Honest. For 50 years the Atrium Club has operated as a gym for men only. But the Atrium is like no other gym. It's a club -- unashamedly a safe haven for an unlikely mix of gentlemen; a place for mind and body where the relationships and the camaraderie are as important as the exercise. The members include rich listers as well as those down on their luck; knights of the realm; sports stars; leaders in the fields of business, industry, medicine, law, academia, military and the media. Many have unique connections to the issues of our times. One man spent his childhood in a Japanese POW camp, another flew the first New Zealand troops into Vietnam, one was sued by David Lange for defamation, another played cricket for New Zealand, one helped save Sir Edmund Hillary on Mt Everest, another lost a child to terrorism in the 2005 London bombings, and one walked away from a horrific plane crash.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Biographies Davis (Central) Library Biographies Biographies B STO 1 Available T00604684
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Extraordinary stories. And ordinary stories. Stories rarely told by men. Revealing. Insightful. Honest. For 50 years the Atrium Club has operated as a gym for men only. But the Atrium is like no other gym. It's a club -- unashamedly a safe haven for an unlikely mix of gentlemen; a place for mind and body where the relationships and the camaraderie are as important as the exercise. The members include rich listers as well as those down on their luck; knights of the realm; sports stars; leaders in the fields of business, industry, medicine, law, academia, military and the media. Many have unique connections to the issues of our times. One man spent his childhood in a Japanese POW camp, another flew the first New Zealand troops into Vietnam, one was sued by David Lange for defamation, another played cricket for New Zealand, one helped save Sir Edmund Hillary on Mt Everest, another lost a child to terrorism in the 2005 London bombings, and one walked away from a horrific plane crash.

Publisher statement on title page verso - The Atrium Club.

Stability in a world of chaos / James Dale -- Flying in the face of fear / Neville Aitchison -- The importance of focus / Dion Nash -- Childhood in a Japanese POW camp / John de Geus -- Sir Ed was in trouble / Mark Sainsbury -- My African experiences / Graeme Lockery -- Never fall off your motorycle in Bosnia on a Saturday afternoon / John Mather -- The man in the mirror / Carl Howard-Smith -- Saigon sunset / Gordon Ragg -- Could have been a contender / Edmund Manuela -- St Matthew's controversial billboards / Glynn Cardy -- Remembering Phil Warren / Simon Grigg -- Overpaid, over-sexed and over here / Stuart Smith -- Road trip through American South / Brendan Mengel -- Don't I know you? / Ewart Barnsley -- My Atrium programme / Richard Kitt -- A soldier's tale, 1945-2015 / David McGregor -- 'Never tell a fat man he's lazy' / Joe Atkinson -- My Dad / John Bukowski -- The power of books / Bill Francis -- Worth it? / Remko Pootjes -- He's still there in the sparkle in their eyes / Luke Nola -- On first meeting my father / Hugh Garlick -- The barge fleet / Chris Rolfe -- Sarajevo sojourn / Max Adams -- A good spin / Win Charlebois -- An Atrium pensioner's plan to make a difference in Australia / John Earwaker -- Flight of fancy / Don Barron -- Northern Ireland at war with Nazi Germany / Sean McKeown -- Leaky buildings-a tale of our times / Vic Double -- An immigrant's journey / Ivan Ivanovic -- In praise of retirement / Rod Barker -- The ballad of the quiet American / Dwight Whitney -- When are you the happiest? / Jim Haynes -- How to survive as a dinosaur / Tim Fawcett -- Hands-on / Graham Wilson -- Off the grid-growing up in remote Hokianga / Thomas Fletcher -- I had to pinch myself / Mark Gascoigne -- The one member who continues to be a physically bad advertisment for the club / Digby Crompton -- Atrium characters / Sir Ken Stevens -- Reminiscences of a money market dealer / Garry Wycherly -- Cara-lawyer to boat builder / Ian Ross -- Adventures of the textile trade / Brian Rainger -- 'An orchestrated litany of lies' / John Keir -- From Auckland to Newfoundland and back / Gary Lowe -- Glory days / Yeong Kee Teck -- A cautionary tale / Brian Rive -- Growing up in Samoa / Peter Spring -- Magic moments-Rugby World Cup 1995 -- Three aspects of a life / Brian Fitzgerald -- Afterword, Lest we forget / Sean McCombe.

Extraordinary stories. And ordinary stories. Stories rarely told by men. Revealing. Insightful. Honest. For 50 years the Atrium Club has operated as a gym for men only. But the Atrium is like no other gym. It's a club -- unashamedly a safe haven for an unlikely mix of gentlemen; a place for mind and body where the relationships and the camaraderie are as important as the exercise. The members include rich listers as well as those down on their luck; knights of the realm; sports stars; leaders in the fields of business, industry, medicine, law, academia, military and the media. Many have unique connections to the issues of our times. One man spent his childhood in a Japanese POW camp, another flew the first New Zealand troops into Vietnam, one was sued by David Lange for defamation, another played cricket for New Zealand, one helped save Sir Edmund Hillary on Mt Everest, another lost a child to terrorism in the 2005 London bombings, and one walked away from a horrific plane crash.

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