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■ REVIEW: A Passion for Flight Vol 2
Flying history recounted

NZ books

Meticulous Errol Martyn continues the rich history of innovation, imagination and daring of early New Zealand aviation. This slice titled Passion for Flight: New Zealand aviation Before the Great War Volume Two: New Zealand Aviation Before the Great War still includes a few of the fanciful feathered contraptions, gliders, balloons and parachutes of volume one, but now […]

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■ REVIEW: A Passion for Flight Vol 3
Martyn a true flight history scholar

General non-fiction, NZ books

No sooner had volume two of this detailed history of early New Zealand history hit the decks after being published in July, 2013, but volume three (A Passion for Flight: New Zealand aviation before the Great War Volume Three: The Joe Hammond Story and Military beginnings 1910-1914) followed, distinguishing Martyn as a true scholar uninterested

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■ REVIEW: Carse Head & Crichton Park Farms
Farmers’ heritage: gritty determination

General non-fiction, NZ books

Intergenerational histories are treasures for local communities, telling the stories of the people who built the present. In this case the focus is on a farming enterprise, down and across five generations based primarily at Pukerau-Kaiwera-Waipahi, though also touching on Central Otago. The founding matriarch, Otago immigrant Irishwoman Alicia McKenna, had a hard and tragic

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