Shipwrecks and Bush Felling

Shipwrecks and Bush Felling

Author: Wendy Hamilton

Publisher: ZealAus Publishing

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1925888649

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The true story of George Meredith who in 1845 goes to sea at eleven, is shipwrecked twice, rescues a princess, and runs away to the gold rush in Melbourne. In New Zealand he meets a girl at the Lyttleton docks, marries her the next day, and carves out a life for himself and his family in the New Zealand bush.


To Own a Fig Tree

To Own a Fig Tree

Author: Wendy Hamilton

Publisher: ZealAus Publishing

Published: 2021-12-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1925888878

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In bondage to the powerful lairds of the Shetland Isles, Robert Johnson’s only hope for a better future resides in the afterlife. But in 1874, an invitation from New Zealand changes everything.


Surviving Home-Schooling Through the Corona Crisis

Surviving Home-Schooling Through the Corona Crisis

Author: Wendy Hamilton

Publisher: ZealAus Publishing

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1925888843

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Forget five hours of schoolwork a day, twenty minutes of instruction combined with good parenting gets the job done. Home-schooler of twenty-years. Wendy Hamilton, shows you how.


Courage in my Carry-On

Courage in my Carry-On

Author: Rachel Hamilton

Publisher: ZealAus Publishing

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1925888681

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Courage in my Carry-On is a personal account of a shy young woman who began travelling and volunteering overseas in Asia and Africa and how it completely changed her life. Courage in my carry-on is Rachel’s personal story about travelling and volunteering overseas. Rachel was a shy, insecure teenager from New Zealand, but at the age of nineteen boarded a ship that travelled to Sri Lanka and India, and during this time she volunteered at a boy’s orphanage and cleaned wells. A couple of years later, while traveling to Cambodia and Thailand, she saw first-hand the realities of child slavery. In 2016 she began volunteering at a babies home in Uganda. Her travels and life experiences have taught her to overcome her fears and push herself beyond her comfort zone.


My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates

My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates

Author: Frances Porter

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1869401298

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The women of this book are mainly Pakeha. They are domestic servants, governors' wives and farmers, married, single, widowed or deserted. They write about love, friendship, children, destitution, illness and grief. Maori women write about land, loss and love, about families and domestic events - in both Maori and English.


Me, the Boat and a Guy Named Bob

Me, the Boat and a Guy Named Bob

Author: Christopher E. Bowman

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780994249098

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In the spring of 1972 a 20 year old kid from California took off to see the world. His journies led him down the East African coast and across several oceans to a magical Caribbean island and the building of a beautiful boat. This schooner, christened Water Pearl, was owned in part by he legendary musician Bob Dylan. "I'm either in New York or on the West Coast or down in the Caribbean. Me and another guy own a boat down there," he once said. Finally, after forty years, here is the story of how through a cosmic chain of events this remarkable story came to pass.