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Dear Oliver

- Uncovering a Pakeha History

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When award-winning writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mothers effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780994147363
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 336
  • Utgitt:
  • 12. mars 2018
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 210x140x21 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 518 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Leveringstid: Ukjent
Utvidet returrett til 31. januar 2025

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When award-winning writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mothers effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders.

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