Carapace : The Motor Car in New Zealand

Stock Code:
BAE3599
Price:
$35.00

Description

Carapace : The Motor Car in New Zealand. A Road side View by M. H. Holcroft. 'Scarcely anybody now asks if motor cars are really necessary, but a few people still manage to live without owning or driving them. Monte Holcroft admits that this apartness can be a form of second-class citizenship. But he is not sure that a first-class life (or what is taken to be one in our mobile society) is worth having. He has been thinking about motor cars, and what they are doing to us - as well as for us - since he wrote a chapter on the subject in his prize-winning essay, The Deepening Stream, published in 1940. The motoring revolution had not then begun the giant acceleration which has changed the world and all of our lived. But change and problems were beginning to show themselves. Holcroft now looks at New Zealand in what he sees as the climax of the motoring age. He studies its effects: the overbearing presence of vehicles, the economic consequences of universal car-ownership, the takeover of roads and land, the erosion of beaches and countryside, the loosening of family life and its social consequences, and changes in the New Zealand character.' The dust jacket has light general wear but the book remains in a very tidy condition.

Details

  • Author:
    Holcroft, M. H.
  • Book Condition:
    Very Good
  • Publisher:
    John McIndoe, Dunedin, NZ
  • Edition:
    First
  • Jacket Condition:
    Good Plus
  • Binding:
    Hard Cover
  • Location:
    CA2
  • ISBN:
    0908565917
  • Size:
    4to
  • Pages:
    136
  • Publish Date:
    1979
Stock Level:
1 In Stock
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