$33.10
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2026
Summary
‘Some things I’ve seen I can never share.’
From a TV journalist on the Pacific frontline comes this candid, intensely engaging memoir. Barbara Dreaver has covered the Pacific for 30 years. During this time the ocean’s many island nations and territories have gone from being largely ignored by world leaders to the focus of big-power rivalry. And Dreaver has become one of the world’s leading Pacific correspondents. She takes you inside her gruelling, often crazy life as she and her TV t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781927249932 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1927249937 |
| Author: | Barbara Dreaver |
| Publisher: | Awa Press |
| Imprint: | Awa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 147mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
‘An intimate account of an extraordinary career. Barbara Dreaver knows Pacific nations like few others and has witnessed their strengths and struggles. From her origin story in Kiribati through decades as a journalist, her memoir exudes a profound love of and commitment to the region and its peoples’
–REBECCA MACFIE, author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine‘Barbara Dreaver’s powerful stories show why she is one of the best reporters in the trade’
–MICHAEL FIELD, author of Swimming with Sharks and The Catch‘I started reading and couldn’t stop … a beautiful, generous, vulnerable book’
–OSCAR KIGHTLEY, actor and TV presenterBarbara Dreaver
Barbara Dreaver was born in Kiribati, moving to Aotearoa New Zealand at the age of ten. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma in Pacific Journalism, she worked in Rarotonga for Cook Islands News and Cook Islands Press. In 1998 she returned to New Zealand, reporting for NZ Listener, National Business Review and Radio NZ. In 2002, she joined Television New Zealand’s 1News and in 2003 became its Pacific Correspondent. In 2019, she won multiple awards at the Voyager Media Awards for her coverage of the deadly Samoa measles outbreak. In 2022 she was named Reporter of the Year.
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