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High Country Days

High Country Days

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by Peter Newton

Hardback. No dustjacket. In good condition. Published 1949

According to the author's introduction this is "an attempt to place on record the work and lives of that hardy fraternity whose lot is cast in the more remote fastnesses of New Zealand's southern mountains". This recounts the adventures of a group of musterers in a typical Canterbury high-country station around the late 1920s. The names are all fictitious but the events described are in the main true, says Newton. With plenty of wonderful old black and white images. 

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