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Combining more than 250 early photos and reproductions of paintings with a highly readable text, Ogilvie, one of Canterbury's best known historians and biographers, captures in graphic detail the story of Banks Peninsula from its European settlement days onwards. Through exploring such themes as Maori and European interaction, pioneer women, timber times, churches and clerics, grog and pubs, and coaching days, the Peninsula's changing fortunes and colourful characters are vividly brought to life in this outstanding pictorial history...