The Far Downers the People and History of Haast and Jackson Bay By Julia Bradshaw.

The Far Downers the People and History of Haast and Jackson Bay By Julia Bradshaw.

Publisher: University of Otago Press (2001), Dunedin. SCARCE.

Very good softback, some cover and corner creasing, no inscriptions, binding firm, minor marks. 152 pages, illustrated.

At the end of the road on the southwest coast of the South Island, Jackson Bay is today a fishing village. In 1874, it was established as a special settlement for European immigrants, some of whom refused to disembark from their ships, such were the harsh and isolated conditions of life they saw before them. Those who remained were a feisty lot, living a pioneering life while elsewhere in New Zealand people went to the movies, listened to the radio and drove cars. No road link to the area existed until 1960. This book introduces the reader to the Maori and European history of the Haast district, and shares the life stories of nine people who grew up there in the first half of the twentieth century.

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