Outliers - Eight Antipodean Tales

The author of BEGINNINGS IN AOTEAROA AND ABROAD, anthropologist Michael 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 be construed as a metaphor for being estranged by temperament or accident from mainstream society".