The story of Walter Mantell's 1848 journey down the east coast of the South Island in New Zealand, to set aside reserves for Ngai Tahu within a large land-block purchased by the government, is countered with a modern woman's very different story of violence on a South Island farm. This evocative and finely observed novel reveals different ways of seeing the land as well as the deals made in politics and in love.
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The story of Walter Mantell's 1848 journey down the east coast of the South Island in New Zealand, to set aside reserves for Ngai Tahu within a large land-block purchased by the government, is countered with a modern woman's very different story of violence on a South Island farm. This evocative and finely observed novel reveals different ways of seeing the land as well as the deals made in politics and in love.
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New. The story of Walter Mantell's 1848 journey down the east coast of the South Island in New Zealand is countered with a modern woman's very different story of violence on a South Island farm. This novel reveals different ways of seeing the land as well as the deals made in politics and in love. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 359. 2006. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.