Shandrydan – The Willow Flat Country
Notes
Jim Fraser, 1949 –
“Book one … journey of the Frasers from the Scottish Highlands to Nelson and to Willow Flat …
Book two tells of the first families to take up land …
Book three is … an oral record describing the last hundred years at Willow Flat”
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-371) and index
Description
‘The history and romantic promenade of a wildly beautiful region in New Zealand’
“Shandrydan – The Willow Flat Country” is a regional work that celebrates the hand of God in history, and its geographic reach is New Zealand wide.
The Nelson colony, Canterbury and Poverty Bay in the 1800’s feature among a variety of journeys that lead to this remote and lovely Northern Hawke ‘s Bay valley. Willow Flat, the station, neighboured another property that produced a major historical work, “Tutira”, by Herbert Guthrie-Smith, that influenced the author like a colossus as he wrote, so also the historical novel “Centennial”, by James A Michener and several stanzas of “Gorky Park”, by Martin Cruz Smith.
There are chapters on the tangata whenua, on geography and the dinosaurs. Astounding outcomes are reached after ten years of free time endeavour. There are some surprises.
Cover type
HardbackType of publication
BookISBN
0-476-00356-3Pages
400Dimensions
19.5 x 25.5 cmOther Details
illustrations, maps
Publisher
J FraserYear published
2004Place of publication
HamiltonBibliography subjects
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