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Ghosts of Makara: Growing up Down-Under in a Lost World of Yesteryears

By Bernard Diederich

Book information

Publisher
Xlibris US
Year
2002
ISBN
1469112779, 9781469112770
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1679788 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Time added
2022-07-18 09:29:50

Description

Ghosts of Makara: Growing up Down-Under in a lost world of yesteryears, is the moving memoir of a son of an Irish-German immigrant family growing up during the 1920s and the Depression-wracked '30s in a wind-blasted, yet picturesque, Pacific corner of colonial New Zealand. Makara Beach could have been Middle-Earth of the Lord of the Rings, the Academy Award-winning movie which 70 years later used Makara as one of its filming locations. In this sepia-tinted, nostalgic, first-person family album, the author evokes a lost era Down Under, one without television, the Internet, or (early on) even radio, when he and his younger brothers and sisters acted out their own stories and dreamed their own dreams. It was truly a different world, where barefoot Bobbits grew up with a deep love of nature and respect for family--a world we can learn much from today.

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