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_aHarbourne, David, _eauthor. |
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_aPenguins under the porch : _ba Yorkshireman's ode to Oamaru / _cDavid Harbourne. |
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_aChristchurch _bWily Publications _c2018. |
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_a296 pages, viii, viii pages of plates : _billustrations, plates ; _c24 cm |
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520 | _a"I first stumbled across Oamaru a few years ago. Like many towns in New Zealand, it was built from scratch in the second half of the nineteenth century. Today, the old town is a time capsule built from gleaming limestone: one intricately carved classical building follows another, each hinting at a half-forgotten history of borrowed money and ill-founded optimism. Oh, and there are penguins. Lots of them. And Steampunk HQ. And the best preserved Victorian-Edwardian harbour in the country. I thought the place was amazing. So much so that thoughts of Oamaru nagged at me until finally I quit my job, travelled half way round the world and spent a long and very happy time poking around and talking to anyone who would talk back – which means basically everyone. Over the following months, I found out about Oamaru’s founding figures: self-made men, a talented architect, one of New Zealand’s first female novelists and two police sergeants called Bullen. I met people who have revived interest in Oamaru’s heritage, a latter-day Victorian, the mayor, steampunks and Dot Smith, the genius behind the country’s first moated castle. I ate whitebait frittata, muttonbird and Kürtőskalács (no, me neither), and became an honorary Oamaruvian just in time for the Victorian heritage celebrations. It was utterly fantastic. Back home, I wrote ‘Penguins under the Porch: A Yorkshireman's Ode to Oamaru’, a collection of stories about some of the people who built Oamaru a century and a half ago, some of the people who live there now and the adventures I had 12,000 miles from home."--callmedad.co.nz. | ||
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_aOamaru (N.Z.) _xDescription and travel. _940490 |
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_aWaitaki District (N.Z.) _xDescription and travel. _940491 |
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