Message received from the contact form on this site:
Saturday, October 28, 2006
"I came to NZ as an 18 year-old on that last voyage of the Hobson. As a
professional writer, I am just beginning a memoir which will include some
account of that trip."
In reply to my email, Mr Temple mentioned that he had met Rhys Jones onboard
the Captain Hobson:
"You may remember him on TV here years ago when he was one of the front
people on Auckland's Town and Around. He spent a lot of time in Australia
and elsewhere but has been back in Auckland for a while."
I certainly do remember him as we were living in Hamilton when Town and Around
was showing.
A small selection of Mr Temple's publications, awards and honours,
are presented below.
BOOKS
The World At Their Feet, NZ mountaineers overseas (W&T 1969)
Castles in the Air, Men and Mountains in NZ (McIndoe 1973)
Beak of the Moon (Collins 1981, 1985 and various editions)
Sam (Hodder & Stoughton NZ and UK 1984)
New Zealand Explorers, Great Journeys of Discovery (Whitcoulls 1985)
Dark of the Moon (Penguin 1993)
To Each His Own (Hazard 1999, German edition 2006)
A Sort of Conscience, the Wakefields (AUP 2002)
The Last True Explorer (Godwit 2002, plus German [2003] and Italian [2005])
White Shadows, memories of Marienbad (Vintage 2005)
I Am Always With You (Vintage 2006)
AWARDS
Wattie Award (3rd) 1970 (for The World At Their Feet)
AIM Award 1990 (for Kakapo, Parrot of the Night)
ÅIM Honour Award 1995 (for Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron)
Wallace Award for outstanding contribution to electoral matters 1998 (for MMP booklets and articles)
Winner, Best TV documentary/factual script 2000 (for 'Families At War' in Our People, Our Century series)
Montana Biography Award; ARANZ Ian Wards Prize; Ernest Scott History Prize (Univ. of Melbourne), all 2003 (for A Sort of Conscience, The Wakefields)
Montana Illustrative Book Award 2004 (for Central)
HONOURS
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM), for services to literature, New Year's Honours 2004
Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, Non-Fiction 2005
