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The water thieves / (Record no. 12171)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 11019865
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control field OSt
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20140523163526.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 060919s2006 nz af 000 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781877361517 (pbk.) :
Terms of availability $34.99
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1877361518 (pbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (NLNZils)1209897
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Nz)11019865
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)154952832
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NZNB
Transcribing agency NZNB
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code u-nz---
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 333.7291009938
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mahon, Sam.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The water thieves /
Statement of responsibility, etc Sam Mahon.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Dunedin, N.Z. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Longacre Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 269 p., [8] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-266).
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The Water Thieves is a passionate and engaging account of a year in the author's life. Galvanised into action by the realisation that the wetlands and streams all around him have begun to wither, Sam Mahon embarks on a year of involvement in local body politics. This memoir charts the frustrations, relationships, and conflicts, as well as the need for wild invention when he agrees to run for Council. Mahon's descriptions of the natural world rival those from our best poets. Yet when he describes the real nuts and bolts of politics: council meetings, memos, phone trees, protests, working with fellow environmentalists, he's also a comically disarming and often blistering, social satirist. His energy for sustaining a fight in the face of maddening obstruction is prodigious. Mahon's techniques for gaining councillor and media attention are hilarious, bloody-minded and bold: from pyrotechnics to mock funerals; from stabbingly witty speeches to asking those in power to put their politics where their immediate health is, demonstrates all the qualities of the firebrand. This memoir is poetry, expose, elegy, Shakespearean comedy, drama and protest song. Mahon weaves the world of the artist and the world of the environmental activist with skill and immediacy. His comments on human nature, including his own, make for some hilarious, and sobering, moments. The Water Thieves is an astonishing and intensely interesting account concerning one of our most valuable natural resources. It is skilfully and passionately written with an individual and honest voice: a new voice in the literary non-fiction genre of memoir.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mahon, Sam.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Water
General subdivision Pollution
Geographic subdivision New Zealand
-- Canterbury.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Water conservation
Geographic subdivision New Zealand
-- Canterbury.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Non-Fiction - New Zealand
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan Non Fiction Waimate Waimate Located at Event Centre 24/10/2006 C&V Chapters & Verses 35.00 1 333.72 A00433569 18/09/2020 27/08/2020 35.00 24/10/2006 Non-Fiction Not For Loan
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