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Repackaging the foreign, Giselle Byrnes
Caught Mapping: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Early Land Surveyors Janet Holm Hazard Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877270865 In 1849, less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the assertion of British sovereignty over…
Tagged with: Giselle Byrnes, Hazard Press, Issue 71, Janet Holm, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Pious historians, pioneer ancestors, Rose Lovell-Smith
Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of North Canterbury Janet Holm, Hazard Press, $59.95 The Voyage of the ‘May Queen’ Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, price not given In 1859 George Rutherford bought the lease of a largish…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Janet Holm, Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review