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

"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 nin...

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Place / Publishing House:Auckland, New Zealand : : Massey University Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (333 pages) :; illustrations
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