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"... gives a personalised history of the nation: the political battles, the social mores, disasters, crimes, tragedies and triumphs are all dramatically described by journalists and other eyewitnesses who were there ... William Colenso reports on the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, James McIndoe details the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully, Corporal J. R. Page writes from the battlefields of the Boer War, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett describes the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, and others tell of Hillary's conquest of Everest in 1953 ... New Zealand history has been fraught with natural disasters and national tragedies: the foundering of the "Tararua", the eruption of Mount Tarawera, Scott's Antarctic expedition, the Hawkes Bay earthquake, terrible railway crashes at Hyde and on the North Island Main Trunk, the sinking of the ferry "Wahine" in Wellington Harbour and the 1979 air crash on Mount Erebus ...." -- Inside front cover.
Comprehensive coverage of key events/issues including: Treaty of Waitangi, Women's suffrage, Gallipoli, Minnie Dean, miners strike at Waihi, disaster at White Island, police arrest Rua Kennana, Passchendaele, Murchison earthquake, Depression riots, Jean Batten, VC awarded to Crete veterans, Tobruk, Cassino, fire at Ballantynes, Watersider's strike 1951, Nelson protest re railway link (Sonja Davies) plus those mentioned in abstract… (meer)
"... gives a personalised history of the nation: the political battles, the social mores, disasters, crimes, tragedies and triumphs are all dramatically described by journalists and other eyewitnesses who were there ... William Colenso reports on the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, James McIndoe details the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully, Corporal J. R. Page writes from the battlefields of the Boer War, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett describes the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, and others tell of Hillary's conquest of Everest in 1953 ... New Zealand history has been fraught with natural disasters and national tragedies: the foundering of the "Tararua", the eruption of Mount Tarawera, Scott's Antarctic expedition, the Hawkes Bay earthquake, terrible railway crashes at Hyde and on the North Island Main Trunk, the sinking of the ferry "Wahine" in Wellington Harbour and the 1979 air crash on Mount Erebus ...." -- Inside front cover.
Comprehensive coverage of key events/issues including: Treaty of Waitangi, Women's suffrage, Gallipoli, Minnie Dean, miners strike at Waihi, disaster at White Island, police arrest Rua Kennana, Passchendaele, Murchison earthquake, Depression riots, Jean Batten, VC awarded to Crete veterans, Tobruk, Cassino, fire at Ballantynes, Watersider's strike 1951, Nelson protest re railway link (Sonja Davies) plus those mentioned in abstract
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