Boden Black (A Novel) and With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps: Differences Between Overseas and New Zealand Written Accounts of Climbing Mount Cook 1882-1920 and the Emergence of a New Zealand Voice in Mountaineering Literature

• Main Author: Fearnley, Jura (Laurence)
• Other Authors: Manhire, Bill, Thomson, John
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2012
• Subjects: Boden Black; Novel; Boden; Mount Cook; New Zealand; Mackenzie Basin
• Online Access: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2495

This thesis has two components: creative and critical. The creative component is the novel Boden Black. It is a first person narrative, imagined as a memoir, and traces the life of its protagonist, Boden Black, from his childhood in the late 1930s to adulthood in the present day. The plot describes...