An outsider looks back: Reflections on experience by Wilson, Ormond.

An outsider looks back: Reflections on experience by Wilson, Ormond.

Hardcover, as new, with dust jacket tanned, and chipped edges ISBN 9780908635023 Publisher: Port Nicholson Press, 1982

Born Into The Colonial Gentry, Ormond Wilson Was To Become One Of New Zealand's Leading Left Wing Intellectuals. He Was A Member Of The First Labour Government, An Executive In The Bbc, And For Many Years Chairman Of The Historic Places Trust. These Memoirs Trace His Path From A Sheltered Childhood Through Exhilarating Student Years At Oxford And Germany, And So To The Socialism That Was To Influence Him For The Rest Of His Life. In The Background There Is Always The Land: The Farm At Mount Lees In The Rangitikei And The Beautiful Bush Garden That He Established There On His Return From England As A Young Man. -- Inside Front Cover. Memoirs Of A Member Of The First Labour Government, An Executive In The Bbc, And For Many Years Chairman Of The Historic Places Trust -- Dust Jacket. Ormond Wilson. 212 pages.