Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers
Wholesale $19.40 + GST
RRP $38.00
ISBN 9781738594504
In 2020 Richard von Sturmer spent twelve months exploring the Waikato region, this book is the record of his discoveries, reveries and experiences. It is a travel journal to some of the lesser visited parts of the Waikato, including the Hinuera Natural Stone quarry, the remnants of the Tokanui Pyschiatric Hospital, the New Zealand Heritage site of the Rotowaro Carbonisation Works, the location of the historic Beeville community, Taupiri cemetery, the peat lakes, and much else.
Von Sturmer is guided to sacred locations by Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Maniapoto descendent Dr Tom Roa, and by master carver Wiremu Puke, and through all his travels he finds moments of unexpected enchantment: a tree root mistaken for a taniwha, a horse disguised as a zebra. Illustrated by his finely observed photographs Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers is full of gateways into a hidden Waikato.
Richard von Sturmer is well-known for writing the lyrics of Blam Blam Blam’s ‘There is No Depression in New Zealand’, which has become New Zealand’s alternate national anthem. His previous books include: A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (HeadworX, 2005), This Explains Everything (Atuanui Press, 2016), Postcard Stories (Titus Books, 2019) and Resonating Distances (Titus Books, 2022). Von Sturmer was Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato during 2020 when this book was written.
Published by Titus Books, August 2023
Soft cover, 150 pages
140×205mm, upright
Wholesale $19.40 + GST
RRP $38.00
ISBN 9781738594504
In 2020 Richard von Sturmer spent twelve months exploring the Waikato region, this book is the record of his discoveries, reveries and experiences. It is a travel journal to some of the lesser visited parts of the Waikato, including the Hinuera Natural Stone quarry, the remnants of the Tokanui Pyschiatric Hospital, the New Zealand Heritage site of the Rotowaro Carbonisation Works, the location of the historic Beeville community, Taupiri cemetery, the peat lakes, and much else.
Von Sturmer is guided to sacred locations by Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Maniapoto descendent Dr Tom Roa, and by master carver Wiremu Puke, and through all his travels he finds moments of unexpected enchantment: a tree root mistaken for a taniwha, a horse disguised as a zebra. Illustrated by his finely observed photographs Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers is full of gateways into a hidden Waikato.
Richard von Sturmer is well-known for writing the lyrics of Blam Blam Blam’s ‘There is No Depression in New Zealand’, which has become New Zealand’s alternate national anthem. His previous books include: A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (HeadworX, 2005), This Explains Everything (Atuanui Press, 2016), Postcard Stories (Titus Books, 2019) and Resonating Distances (Titus Books, 2022). Von Sturmer was Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato during 2020 when this book was written.
Published by Titus Books, August 2023
Soft cover, 150 pages
140×205mm, upright
Wholesale $19.40 + GST
RRP $38.00
ISBN 9781738594504
In 2020 Richard von Sturmer spent twelve months exploring the Waikato region, this book is the record of his discoveries, reveries and experiences. It is a travel journal to some of the lesser visited parts of the Waikato, including the Hinuera Natural Stone quarry, the remnants of the Tokanui Pyschiatric Hospital, the New Zealand Heritage site of the Rotowaro Carbonisation Works, the location of the historic Beeville community, Taupiri cemetery, the peat lakes, and much else.
Von Sturmer is guided to sacred locations by Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Maniapoto descendent Dr Tom Roa, and by master carver Wiremu Puke, and through all his travels he finds moments of unexpected enchantment: a tree root mistaken for a taniwha, a horse disguised as a zebra. Illustrated by his finely observed photographs Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers is full of gateways into a hidden Waikato.
Richard von Sturmer is well-known for writing the lyrics of Blam Blam Blam’s ‘There is No Depression in New Zealand’, which has become New Zealand’s alternate national anthem. His previous books include: A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (HeadworX, 2005), This Explains Everything (Atuanui Press, 2016), Postcard Stories (Titus Books, 2019) and Resonating Distances (Titus Books, 2022). Von Sturmer was Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato during 2020 when this book was written.
Published by Titus Books, August 2023
Soft cover, 150 pages
140×205mm, upright
Praise for Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers
This beautiful object, this dream set down on paper, is travel writing regained, and put to rights. The first person invested in it is the reader. You are about to go on a journey. You are in good hands: great travel writing picks you up and swings you along like luggage.
—Steve Braunias