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Harper, Lisa, 1975-

The wharf at Waterfall Bay : an isolated life in the Sounds, the courage to change tack / Lisa Harper. - 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) colour map, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.

"When Lisa Harper returned to her family's farm at Waterfall Bay, at the head of remote Mahau Sound, after years overseas working as a scientist, she showed all the pluck and entrepreneurial streak of the earlier generations of women in her family. The isolation wasn't going to deter her from starting a new business. After all, her grandmother and mother were made of stern stuff, coping with running stock, keeping an orchard, making cheese, operating a guest house, home-schooling children and only getting to 'town' every six weeks. Eight years later Lisa was an award winning traditional cheesemaker and a Nuffield fellowship winner when she had to make a major decision to wrench the family from Waterfall Bay to secure its future"--Publisher information.

ISBN: 9781775534563 (paperback) : $39.99

Subjects--Personal Names:
Harper, Lisa, 1975-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Farm life--New Zealand--Marlborough Sounds.
New business enterprises--New Zealand--Marlborough Sounds.

Dewey Class. No.: 630.92