Down the river

Sunday column

One sunny morning last summer, Hazel Nash invited us on a Whanganui River expedition. The ethereal Whanganui River; first in the world to be granted legal personhood; admired by so very many travellers by road, by foot, by water craft, subject of David Young’s Woven By Water: Histories from the Whanganui River.

Woven By Water recalls a time, in living me…