Early this morning, my friend and colleague Zheng Jieying emailed from New Zealand to say that she had taken her copy of Green Swans to the country’s volcanic east coast – and showed them the young volcano Rangitoto, one of the iconic symbols of Aotearoa New Zealand.
As she explained: “The name of Rangitoto in te reo Maori implies the evidence of witnessing something of greatness or significance, such as a volcanic eruption. Seabirds were swirling, their crisp long callings in the cold wind. The dramatic colours of the clouds were as if setting up a stage for a[n …] entrance.. [T]he Green Swan ushered us into a new dawn.”
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