Jackson Michael

Author of Beginnings in Aotearoa and Abroad, Jackson returns to tell stories which speak 'to my double life, shuttling between the southern and northern hemispheres, and blurring the line between fact and fiction.' In ancient geomythology, antipodean referred to people and places at the far side of the known world who walked with their feet facing backward. Accordingly, antipodean may...

Beginnings: In Aotearoa and Abroad is a fascinating account of Michael Jackson’s life as an anthropologist and writer. He talks about growing up in Aotearoa and returning over the years, his life with a growing family in Sierra Leone among the Kuranko people, and his musings on childhood, love, poetry, regeneration, changing friendships, yoga, and the beliefs, mythologies and rituals...