New Zealand's rural heritage has produced a rich store of evocative, entertaining and memorable writing. Out of Town is a delightful personal selection of the wealth of material that has been written from and about the countryside. In poetry and prose, it provides a collective memoir of those who settled the land, struggled to farm it and finally prospered. Readers with find the work of well-known authors - Dan Davin, O.E. Middleton, Ruth Dallas, Frank S. Anthony, Jim Henderson, Roderick Finlayson, Amelia Batistich, James K. Baxter, Witi Ihimaera - alongside the contributions of lesser known writers whose work may be unfamiliar tomany of today's readers: Delphin Adsett, Alice F. Webb, J.W. Barns-Graham, T. Peter Hammond, Frances Blunt, Lester Masters, Bruce Stronach.