- 1987 edition. 169 pages
- Publisher New Women's Press
- Softcover. Photos
- Condition. Good Slight tanning on page edges
A Danish Family in New Zealand
In 1907 the author and her family came to New Zealand from Denmark. Her mother was accustomed to gracious living in Copenhagen, her father to working on land that had been tilled for generations. They were little prepared for the thirty years of bad luck and hardship ahead.
With pluck and determination, the family tried to establish themselves - first in the Manawatu, then on a 'bush-sick' land in the Bay of Plenty, and finally working in the Otorohanga area. There they applied their DAnish skill in animal husbandry to build up a highly successful pig-farm.
The faily kept up their language and their traditions at home, so that the children were nurtured in a cocoon of Danish childhood. But for the girls, this inevitably led to conflict between home and the world outside which only thy could resolve
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