Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha History

by Peter Wells

A fresh way to look at New Zealand's history When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0994147368
• ISBN13: 9780994147363
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Massey University
• Length: 336 Pages