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    Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history
    Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history
    Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history
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    Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history

    By Peter Wells

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMassey University Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9780994147370
    Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history
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    Peter Wells

    Grandmaster Peter Wells has over 30 years' professional experience in the chess world and has authored or co-authored nine well-received chess books. He has extensive coaching experience, having worked with the England Open and women's teams at a total of 16 major events, and has supported England juniors in international competition on numerous occasions as well. As a player Peter has won three British Rapidplay titles and is part of a small group of English players to have progressed beyond the zonal stage of the World Championship cycle. Peter is based in Wiltshire, UK.

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