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    The Petersens: From Norway to Croydon Bush
    The Petersens: From Norway to Croydon Bush
    The Petersens: From Norway to Croydon Bush
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    The Petersens: From Norway to Croydon Bush

    By Justin Cahill

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    This is a memoir of the Petersens, one of the first families to settle at Croydon Bush, a farming district near Gore in Southland. Full of tales of Sydney convicts, Māori princesses and Norwegian whalers who jumped ship, their story is typical of the many thousands of settlers who came to New Zealand.

    Caught up in the settlement of Auckland, the New Zealand Land Wars, Otago and Port Preservation gold rushes, the Petersens were among those involved in the closer settlement of the Waimea Plains.

    This account tells how ordinary people built a new community – and a new nation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Cahill
    Release dateApr 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311142245
    The Petersens: From Norway to Croydon Bush
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    Justin Cahill

    Welcome to my Smashwords profile.I am a New Zealand-born writer, based in Sydney. My main interests are nature and history.My thesis was on the negotiations between the British and Chinese governments over the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It was used as a source in Dr John Wong’s Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, the standard work on that conflict.I wrote a column on the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley for the Earlwood News (sadly, now defunct) between 1992 and 1998.My short biography of the leading Australian ornithologist, Alfred North (1855-1917), was published in 1998.I write regular reviews on books about history for my blog,’ Justin Cahill Reviews’ and Booktopia. I’m also a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Heckler' column.My current projects include completing the first history of European settlement in Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people and a study of the extinction of Sydney’s native birds.After much thought, I decided to make my work available on Smashwords. Australia and New Zealand both have reasonably healthy print publishing industries. But, like it or not, the future lies with digital publishing.So I’m grateful to Mark Coker for having the vision to establish Smashwords and for the opportunity to distribute my work on it.

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