The Land Ballot

by Fleur Adcock

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things didn't work out as they had hoped much of the responsibility for running the farm and engineering their eventual escape fell on their teenage son,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780371470
• ISBN13: 9781780371474
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"