The emotional collision between a New Zealand historian and a West German teacher causes both to re-examine their own and their countries’ histories. To Each His Own (1999) is set in Berlin just before the Wall comes down. Sam (1984) is an autobiographical childhood novel that tells the story of a small boy growing up in Yorkshire during wartime and in London during the postwar years of austerity. Both novels are full of adventure and myth and have appealed to readers aged from nine to 90. In its successor, Dark of the Moon (1993), kea cope with contemporary stresses and threats to their environment. This novel was a best-seller and has rarely been out of print. The activating event is the arrival of humans in the landscape and their destruction of the natural mountain environment. An anthropomorphic novel in the tradition of Watership Down, it explored and celebrated the world of the Southern Alps through the eyes of its most well-known inhabitant, the intelligent and resourceful mountain parrot or kea. His first two, The Explorer (1975) and Stations (1979) were historical novels, with themes of 19th century pioneer exploration and high country settlement in the mountain country of the South Island.īeak of the Moon (1981) was a first in New Zealand fiction. Print.To date, Philip Temple has published ten novels. ' Archaeological Sites on the Island of Cozumel: The Role of Astronomy in Architectural and Urban Planning.' The Role of Archaeoastronomy in the Maya World: The Case Study of the Island of Cozumel. ' Late Holocene Environmental Reconstruction Using Cave Sediments from Belize.' Quaternary Research 68.1 (2007): 53–63. ' Time and the Moon in Maya Culture: The Case of Cozumel.' The Role of Archaeoastronomy in the Maya World: The Case Study of the Island of Cozumel. ' Calendric-Astronomical Alignment of Architectural Structures in Mesoamerica: An Ancestral Cultural Practice.' The Role of Archaeoastronomy in the Maya World: The Case Study of the Island of Cozumel.

'The Mapping of Ix Chel: A Terminal Classic Secondary Maya Site on the Northern Vaca Plateau, Belize, Central America.' Northern Vaca Plateau Geoarchaeology Project, 2006.

Colas, Pierre Robert, Katja Christiane Stengert, and Urlich Wolfel.

' Mending the Past: Ix Chel and the Invention of a Modern Pop Goddess.' Antiquity 80.307 (2015): 25–37.

Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple