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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1940-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128583601
Author : Charles Rous-Marten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0908573421
Author : Graham Hutchins
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927147290
No book exists specifically on the famous, popular ‘name’ trains that used to run on the New Zealand rail network. The Auckland-Opua Express once carried passengers to the Bay of Islands, the Onehunga Boat Train used to be part of the main route between Auckland and Wellington, and the Rotorua Limited enabled tourists and the well-to-do to take the waters in Rotorua. Later trains like the Silver Star and Northerner - even the Kaimai, Geyserland and Bay Expresses, withdrawn in 2001 - had a distinctive character too.Last Train to Paradise describes the halcyon days of New Zealand rail, some of which the author was fortunate enough to experience personally. The ‘name’ trains and journeys cover a considerable period of New Zealand’s history, from the late 1800s, through the ‘golden’ era of train travel (the first four decades of the 20th century), and conclude with the introduction of new services in the last half of the century. The railway lines described in the book cover every part of the country – and some that have almost been erased from popular memory. Almost everyone in the first half of the 20th century travelled by train – including royalty. In 1869 the first royal train journey from Lyttelton to Christchurch carried the Duke of Edinburgh; the first fully-fledged royal train carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (the future King George V and Queen Mary) plied the route of the Rotorua Limited and the South Island Express; in 1920 the Prince of Wales traversed the country by train with Lord Louis Mountbatten. In 1927 the Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) travelled more than 1700 miles by royal train. Other distinguished visitors whose stories will be told in the book include the English comedian J.L.Toole and his company (1890), Australian poet Will Lawson, singers Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Irish tenor John McCormack and Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski, ‘March King’ John Philip Sousa and his band, ballerina Anna Pavlova, the 17-year-old violinist Yehudi Menuhin, writers Rudyard Kipling, Zane Grey and George Bernard Shaw, and actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The book will include a wide variety of fascinating and unfamiliar photographs, not just of the trains themselves but also of the people who travelled in them.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1939-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128585986
Author : Robin Bromby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Railroad travel
ISBN : 0992595606
New Zealand railway builders surmounted many obstacles: the terrain, a sparse and scattered population, two islands separated by an often stormy stretch of water, demands from every small settlement for their own railway line. But build a railway system - and a comprehensive one at that - New Zealand did. This is the story of that railway, from its heyday to the day of reckoning as losses had to be confronted. By 1953 the pattern was clear. The era of railways as the mainstay of land transport throughout New Zealand was ending. One by one, most of the rural branches would disappear over the next forty years; passenger train travel - other than commuter services in Auckland and Wellington - would almost disappear to a stage where there are just a handful of tourist services on the most scenic lines; all but the largest towns would lose their railway station. But, until then, the railways of New Zealand were part of almost everyone's life: you caught the train to visit friends and relatives in other parts of New Zealand, you depended on the trains to carry the bulk of the freight that moved to and from the ports. This is their story. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128585820
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128585788
Author : Reynold MacPherson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618975294
Who is this woman? She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature... She was raised a Quaker, converted to and campaigned for Islam, had a life-long interest in spiritualism and died a devout Catholic... She made a foundational contribution to socialist feminist journalism in The Maoriland Worker using the principles of Christian socialism and Leninist-Marxism... She was an associate of Pat Lawlor and Robin Hyde, helped lead the New Zealand Movement against War and Fascism before World War Two and then made a significant contribution to the American War Effort in the US during the war... Answer: Margaret L. Macpherson. Lovers and Husbands and What-not is Margaret Macpherson's biography as written by her grandson. Reynold Macpherson was born in the Far North of New Zealand. He trained as a teacher, and has travelled and worked around the world. Dr. Macpherson has taught mathematics, held three chairs as a professor, served as a CEO of a polytechnic institute, a Chancellor and CEO at a university in the Middle East, and helped with post conflict reconstruction in East Timor. Although retired, he serves internationally as a researcher, and is deeply interested in his family history. Dr. Macpherson is a lifelong writer; Lovers and Husbands and What-not is the author's fourteenth book. Publisher's website, which includes a short informational video on this biography: http: //sbpra.com/ReynoldMacpherso
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UIUC:30112067870144
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015021095701
Author : Alistair Watts
Publisher : Aykay Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780473560362
In New Zealand’s France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective — one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand became British in the 1840s owes much, Dr Watts contends, to that other great colonial power of the time, France. The rich history of British antagonism towards the French was transported to New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s as part of the British colonists’ cultural baggage, to be used in creating an old identity in a new land. Even as the British colonists sought a new beginning, this defining anti-French characteristic caused them to override the existing Māori culture with their own constructs of time and place. Leaving their signature names in the cities of Wellington and Nelson and naming their streets after Waterloo and Collingwood, the British colonisers attempted to establish a local antithesis of France through a bucolic Little Britain in the South Pacific. It was this legacy, as much as the assumed bicultural origins of modern New Zealand, that produced a Pacific country that still relies on the symbolism of the Union Jack embedded in the national flag and the totemic constitutional presence of the British Crown to maintain its national identity. This is the story of how this came about.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211471961
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : India
ISBN : MINN:31951P009969848
Author : Douglas Ross Harvey
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 0864730292
Author : Jennifer Ashton
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781869408251
In telling the story of John Webster's long and colorful life for the first time, this biography also explores the wider transformation of relationships between Maori and Pakeha during the 19th century. In this remarkable biography, Jennifer Ashton uses the life of one man as a unique lens through which to view the early history of New Zealand.