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Stewart, Catherine, 1964-

A wife on Gorge River / Catherine Stewart. - Auckland [N.Z.] : Random House, 2012. - 327 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.

"Raising New Zealand's remotest family"--Cover.

Following her husband Robert Long's book A life on Gorge River (2010), Catherine Stewart gives her point of view. "Many of us have considered leaving the rat race and living a simplier life. When Catherine Stewart met Robert Long (known as 'Beansprout'), an adventurer living at remote Gorge River, on the South Westland coast, she wondered if she, too, could make a life in such an isolated place. Told with honesty and humour, Catherine's insight memoir explains how and why she made Gorge River her home, and raised a family while living off the land and sea. A testament to the rugged West Coast and it's resourceful people, and also to sheer hard work, a wife on Gorge River paints a vivid picture of Catherine's life on Gorge River and beyond"-- Back cover.


ISBN: 9781869799236 (pbk.) : $39.99 1869799232 (pbk.) 1869799240 (Internet) 9781869799236 (pbk.) 9781869799243 (Internet)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Long family.
Stewart, Catherine, 1964-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rural women--New Zealand--Westland District--Biography.
Self-reliant living--New Zealand--Westland District.
Sustainable living--New Zealand--Westland District.

Dewey Class. No.: 993.71038092