Forgotten Coast The

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A short memoir whose main focus is unpacking a family story that was never told:
that a farm in Taranaki on which the family’s generations-long comfortable fortunes
rested had been directly taken from the people of Parihaka and given to an
ancestor, a member of the Armed Constabulary following the invasion of the village
during the New Zealand Wars.
Beautifully written, and intertwined with an examination of the authors’ relationship
with his father and of his family’s proud Catholicism, not only is this book a
fine piece of writing but its key focus is also highly pertinent: How Pakeha New
Zealanders should wrestle with, and own, their colonial past.

ISBN: 9780995143142
Author: SHAW, RICHARD
Temporarily out of stock
Price: $35.00
Title: Forgotten Coast The