"... This selection of journalism, broadcasts and talks, brought together fior the first time, follows [Michael King's] personal and professional growth. It holds up a highly polished mirror to a large area of New Zealandlife and investigates a broad spectrum of contemporary social, cultural, literary and political issues : ...'Tangata Whenua', to the Springbok Tour of '81 and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. ...[It] also tells the stories of a ... gallery of New Zealand identities - writers, politicians, historians, Maori leaders - ... James K. Baxter, John A. Lee, Frank Sargeson, Keith Sinclair, Ngoi Pewhairangi [writer of "Poi E"], centenarian Ngakahikatea, a survivor from a pre-European Maori past, and Ben Symonds, the last New Zealand veteran of the South African [formerly the Boer] War."--Back cover.