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From the introductory chapter:
“This land I love is New Zealand…
“This book is an attempt to put that love into words and so capture some of the essence and spirit as well as the beauty of our country. As such it is not a guide-book, not a history, nor a conducted tour, but a purely subjective record of one woman’s wanderings about her native land, one woman’s reactions to the sights and sounds of its noisy cities and quiet bush, one woman’s faithful but nor infallible impression of its people and places.
“Sometimes I have travelled in great style and formal company on an official assignment, sometimes in a queen’s wake, reporting a royal tour and trying to see ourselves through royal eyes as well as my own. Sometimes I have flown on glamorous first flights, which are said to consume more champagne than aviation fuel. But sometimes I have trundled along as happily in an old country bus that has seen better days, and been just as glad of tea in a thick cup.
“No other traveller will ever follow these travels exactly, nor sleep om a;; the beds I have slept in, nor form by any means the same impressions. Yet every traveller who learns to love New Zealand, even a little, though better still a lot, will have that one thing in common with me. For of all countries in the world, this is the land I love.”
Supplementing Susan Graham’s text are thirty-six photographs by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood, the photographers of New Zealand in Colour – Volumes One and Two. They also proved the colour transparency for the jacket, showing Lake Taupo and the mountains of Tongariro National Park.
Hardcover, 176 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of a few age spots or foxing on some pages.