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Author Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 author.

Title Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pakeha history / Peter Wells.

Publication Info. Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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 from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pakeha New Zealanders"--Back cover.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 -- Family.
Wells, Bess, 1916-2017.
North family.
North family -- Correspondence.
Wells, Bess. 1916-2017 - Family.
Family histories.
Napier (N.Z.) -- Genealogy.
New Zealand -- Genealogy.
New Zealand -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wells, Peter, 1950-2019. Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pakeha history. Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2018 333 pages 9780994147363 (DLC) 2018379868
ISBN 9780994147363
9780994147370 (e-book)

 
    
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