Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Station Life in New Zealand
Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Station life in New Zealand, by lady Barker
Author: lady Mary Anne BroomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Station Amusements in New Zealand
Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Seven Lives of Lady Barker
Author: Betty GilderdalePublisher:
ISBN: 9781877257810
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lady Barker was born in Jamaica in 1831. By the time she died in London in 1911, she had survived two husbands and two wars, lived in seven countries, and written eighteen books. She bore six children, wrote for the Times, and became principal of the first National School of Cookery in London.
Colonial Memories
Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Over the Wide and Trackless Sea
Author: Megan HutchingPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730445682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Facing danger, despair, back breaking work and heart breaking loss and loneliness, the women who forged a new life in New Zealand in colonial times have never been celebrated, and their stories, with a few notable exceptions, have not been widely sheared. Best selling historian Megan Hutching has brought together the stories of a dozen women of all walks of life, whose personal tales of triumph and adversity make compelling reading, and whose contribution helped forge the character of contemporary Aotearoa, where their descendants owe their lives, and their lifestyles, to the sacrifices and strength of these women of the late 1800s.
The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Kiwis Might Fly
Author: Polly EvansPublisher: Delta
ISBN: 030748680X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies’ bones into cutlery, bushwhacking pioneers, and gold miners who lit their pipes with banknotes—and comes face-to-face with their surprisingly tame descendants. So what had become of the mighty Kiwi warrior? As Polly tears through the countryside at seventy-five miles an hour, she attempts to solve this mystery while pub-crawling in Hokitika, scaling the Southern Alps, and enduring a hair-raising stay in a mining town where the earth has been known to swallow houses whole. And as she chronicles the thrills and travails of her extraordinary odyssey, Polly’s search for the elusive Kiwi comes full circle—teaching her some hilarious and surprising lessons about motorcycles, modern civilization, and men.
Station Life in New Zealand
Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Luminaries
Author: Eleanor CattonPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316126950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.