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Ngamatea : The Land and the People
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| NZ$ 50.00 each |
| Paperback |
| Author: Hazel Riseborough |
| Published by: Auckland University Press |
| In Stock: 2 |
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Ngamatea is a huge and historic sheep station in the central North Island, between the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Ranges, high and remote and often snow-covered in winter.
Here Hazel Riseborough tells the history of the station over several generations. It is packed with good stories and told chiefly from the point of view of the people, often eccentric and colourful personalities, who lived and worked there.
Cooks, shearers, shepherds and their dogs, musterers, gardeners, rabbiters and tough, laconic landowners are all included in this engaging picture of an important facet of New Zealand's past.
The chapter on the big muster, which lasted eight months of the year, for example, is absorbing reading. Riseborough has collected these stories before they are lost and forgotten and has recorded a unique, challenging and exhilarating way of life, intrinsic to this country, which has now largely vanished and has received little attention
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