John Daley — Good As Gold

Godwit 2002 Hardback. An unashamedly patriotic book of quotes that encapsulate New Zealand, the people and the lifestyle. The collection of short texts and images are nostalgic, inspirational, literary, beautiful, funny and clever. The collection celebrates the notion that we do have our own language, our own culture and our won peculiar sense of humour.Contributors include Katherine Mansfield, Maurice Shadbolt, Colin McCahon, Austin Mitchell, Frank Sargeson, John A. Lee, Sir Noel Coward, Janet Frame, Dan Davin, Tom Scott, Barry Crump, Bruce Mason, Aunt Daisy, J.B. Priestley, Kevin Ireland, Sir Edmund Hillary, Kate Sheppard, Witi Ihimaera, Lord Rutherford, Allen Curnow, Mark Twain, Rupert Brooke, John Clarke (Fred Dagg), Sylvia Ashton-Warner, and many others.John Daley has been a professional photographer for the past 39 years. He specialises in photographing people, and his work has also illustrated numerous books, including THE ART OF TIVAEVAE. No DJ As Issued. (ISBN: 9781869620981). Good.