Alexander Turnbull Library Curatorial Summer Series 2018 - #3
In the third talk of the 2018 Summer Series Curator of NZ & Pacific Publications Fiona Oliver navigates seas, storms and shipwrecks in relation to some intriguing books that have washed up into the collections.
Date / Time: Wednesday 21 February 2018 / 5:30pm
Venue: Programme Rooms, Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon.
Free. No booking is required but do come early as seating is limited.
We don’t think much about the sea now, of its storms and dangers. But in the 19th century, for those living on an island like New Zealand, reached only by ship, the sea had huge significance, both practical and metaphorical. This talk looks at a selection of fascinating books which have come into the Turnbull collections by way of the sea, and speculates on some of the more outlandish meanings of the ocean in the contexts of these stories and their acquisition.
Dr Fiona Oliver is the Curator NZ & Pacific Publications at the Alexander Turnbull Library. She is also the Managing Editor of the Turnbull Library Record, and in 2014 curated the exhibition Extreme South: Antarctica imagined for the Turnbull Gallery.
Image: Illustration by A F Lydon from "Robinson Crusoe" (1865)
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