Cobb & Co, Otago
A history since Wells Fargo, USA
by Isobel VeitchSpecifications: 210 x 150 mm, 88 pages, 4-colour cover, photos & illustrations. Perfect binding. Retail price $19.95.
Americans Cobb, Peck, Lamber and Swanton used their knowledge during the Californian gold rush to establish in Australia he Cobb and Co. Telegraph Line of coaches. With the finding of gold in Otago the name of the Cobb and Co. firm continued in New Zealand. Those early routes along the Pigroot, the Old Mountain rack, south to Invercargill and north to Oamaru are now fascinating drives for holiday makers and Calvacade riders and trampers. Inns once endured by mid 19th century tourists are described in their own words. Today there is wonderful accommodation in charming goldfield towns.
Clyde on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 79 9 Publication date December 2003, available now.
Dear Pal,
A Kiwi Battler in the South Island outback
by Barrie MannSpecifications: 210 x 150 mm, 188 pages, 4-colour cover, 60 Illustrations by Judith Wolfe. Perfect binding. Retail price $25.95.
Barrie Mann was born in 1928 in Central Otago and was raised during the Great Depression. He started work when he was fourteen as a Rabbiter and spent most of his working life rabbiting, mustering and shearing sheep in the rugged inhospitable mountains of Central Otago. In 1968 he moved to Timaru where he continued with his shearing work as well as working at other physically demanding manual labouring jobs including High Country fencing, truck driving and mint picking before returning to Central Otago and privately mining for gold.
Snow, the name his family and friends knew him by, worked hard and played hard. He enjoyed many a cold beer and undoubtedly his most enjoyable job was as a beer tanker driver for the brewery in Timaru.
This book is a humorous account of the many hilarious incidents that occurred from his childhood days until retirement. A descendent of the Barrie family that fathered the famous author Sir James Barrie, Snow has drawn on a latent talent to tell his tale. Now bedridden in a home in Timaru this is his last job.
Dear Pal, - ISBN 0 908562 89 6 Publication date December 2003, available now.
An Abuse of Power
The story of the Clyde Dam
by Judith Wolfe (cartoons) Trevor Reeves (text)Specifications: 205 x 145 mm, 152 pages, 4-colour cover, over many photos, illustrations. Perfect binding. Retail price $24.95.
This book details the history of the conception and construction of the Clyde Dam on the Clutha River, Otago, NZ. The problems in construction, earthquake faults, multipole slides in the gorge, political bungling and manipulation, the strikes, delays, cost overruns etc. his book has been updated to include material on the Tuapeka Project (never proceeded with) and the Aqua Project on the lower Waitaki River.
An Abuse of Power - ISBN 0 908562 12 8 re-publication date 15th July 2003, available now.
CLYDE ON THE DUNSTAN
A history of early Clyde and nowadays
by Isobel VeitchSpecifications: 210 x 150 mm, 140 pages, 4-colour cover, many photos, illustrations. Perfect binding. Retail price $24.95.
Clyde has always held a prominent place in the fascinating history of Central Otago. This little history aims to convey not only some of the essence of what life was like in the bustling "old days" of gold digging, but also to tell of the development of facilities, and of those who keep the spirit of Clyde alive so that today it continues to hold its appeal for residents and visitors alike. Included is an account of the nearby Gorge's mighty river, the carving out of a new highway, the construction of the hydro-electric dam and the creating of Lake Dunstan.
Clyde on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 49 7 Publication date 6th June 2003, available now.
Gold on the Dunstan
Gold mining in Clyde and nearby
by John McCrawSpecifications: 265 x225mm, 316 pages, 4-colour cover, over 260 maps, photos, photos, illustrations. Perfect binding. Retail price $39.95.
The lure of gold drove miners to prospect much of Central Otago during the nineteenth century. Gold on the Dunstan provides the fullest history yet of over a dozen different diggings in the outlying parts of the Alexandra district, from Campbell Creek to Little Valley, from Fraser Basin to the Manor Burn and from Bald Hill Flat to the Waikerikeri Valley. here is also an account of coal mining at Dairy Creek; a new look at the saga of Feraud and the Clyde water supply, and description of the mining along the 'West Bank' of the Molyneux' with its intriguing herring-bone tailings.
Gold on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 59 4 Publication date, 6th May 2003, now available.
REPLICAR
This book traces the journey of the "Replicar" in 1900 from Christchurch to Oamaru. 100 years later the reconstructed model of the original car built by Fred Dennison made the same journey. Together with an account of the subsequent century of motoring, the authors combine to reveal a fascinating history of motoring in North Otago and beyond
This book was launched on 30 November 2002, in Oamaru. Copies available at a discount of 25%, from this site.
REPLICAR!. 272 pages. $34.95, discount at only $26.20 ISBN 0 908562 53 5
THE GOLDEN JUNCTION
Episodes in Alexandra's History
by John McCrawSpecifications: 265 x225mm, 286 pages, 4-colour cover, over 250 maps, photos, photos, illustrations. Perfect binding. Retail price $34.95.
Alexandra sits at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia rivers in Central Otago. Beginning in 1862 as a camp site for those rushing to the newly discovered gold field at the Dunstan, the town flourished as a supply and entertainment centre for rich gold diggings nearby. As the easily won gold became exhausted, Alexandra declined towards oblivion, but was saved by the establishment of gold dredges on the rivers. At the end of the century the town boomed again, but as dredging in turn declined, the arrival of the railway allowed a struggling stone fruit growing industry to flourish.
Each chapter of this book deals with a thoroughly researched episode in the fascinating history of the town over its first hundred years.
The Golden Junction - ISBN 0 908562 38 1 Publication date 16th April 2002
REAL FIRE - Anthology of 1960's 1970's New Zealand poetry
Selected by Bernard GaddThis anthology is the only one to date which attempts to demonstrate the enormous variety of poetry that was produced in the 1960s and 70s in New Zealand. It doesn't aim to be a comprehensive inclusion of all writers active in those years, but samples writers who began writing or came to prominence or a maturity of style on those decades and whose work retains its appeal. This volume excludes writers whose work is readily accessible in other collections. This selection suggests how extensive the community of poets working in New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s was, influencing one another and together shaping the poetry of the time in an array of forms and approaches including Modernist or more traditional lyrics, satire, imagism, concrete poetry, Japanese and Asian forms, and post-modernism.
The writers and translators included in this enjoyable and interesting collection are:
Jon Adams, Julia Allen, Rosemary Allpress, Tony Beyer, Erick Brenstrum, Geoff Cockrane, Geoffrey Cook, Mana Cracknell, Howard Dengate, Barbara Dent, Henare Dewes, Peggy Dunstan, Rangi Faith, Bernard Gadd, Rupert Glover, Patricia Godsiff, Susan Heap, Stephen Higginson, Keri Hulme, Rob Jackaman, Michael Jackson, Gary Langford, Clive Litt, Don Long, Daryl Mclaren, G. J. Melling, Christopher Middleton, Barry Mitcalfe, John O'Connor, Stephen Oliver, Margaret Orbell, Barry Mitcalfe, , Richard Mudford, Richard Packer, Sarah Pope, Alistair Paterson, Trevor Reeves, Ron Riddell, Colin Rock, Norman Simms, Lindsay Smith, Barry Southam, John Summers, Raymond Ward, J. E. Weir, Alan Wells, Hubert Witheford.
REAL FIRE - poetry from the 1960's and 1970's in New Zealand. 116 pages. $24.95 ISBN 0 908562 34 9 Date of book launch, 5th May 2002
Also available:
BREAKER BREAKER AND OTHER STORIES
Trevor ReevesTwenty stories. First published in print and in on-line magazines throughout the world since 1976. Trevor Reeves is the founder and editor of Southern Ocean Review (1996) and publisher of literary and general books since 1971.
For a review of Breaker Breaker....
"I think that Reeves' view of life is a vitally necessary one because it describes the things he has seen in a way that will linger in the mind. His perceptions of reality are crisp and accurate and he is not afraid of confronting the realities of human experience, never ducking the big questions like the "why's' of life and death. There is a distinction between the male and the female that is refreshing although it is not over-burdened with any imposed conclusion. One comes to conclusions inescapably, however.
Graham Billing
BREAKER BREAKER & OTHER
STORIES. 160 pages. $24.95 ISBN 0 908562 19 5
Clyde on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 79 9 Publication date December 2003, available now.
Dear Pal, - ISBN 0 908562 89 6 Publication date December 2003, available now.
An Abuse of Power - ISBN 0 908562 12 8 re-publication date 15th July 2003, available now.
Clyde on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 49 7 Publication date 6th June 2003, available now.
Gold on the Dunstan - ISBN 0 908562 59 4 Publication date, 6th May 2003, now available.
The Golden Junction - ISBN 0 908562 38 1 Publication date 16th April 2002
REAL FIRE - poetry from the 1960's and 1970's in New Zealand. 116 pages. $24.95 ISBN 0 908562 34 9 Date of book launch, 5th May 2002
For a review of Breaker Breaker....
BREAKER BREAKER & OTHER
STORIES. 160 pages. $24.95 ISBN 0 908562 19 5
Americans Cobb, Peck, Lamber and Swanton used their knowledge during the Californian gold rush to establish in Australia he Cobb and Co. Telegraph Line of coaches. With the finding of gold in Otago the name of the Cobb and Co. firm continued in New Zealand. Those early routes along the Pigroot, the Old Mountain rack, south to Invercargill and north to Oamaru are now fascinating drives for holiday makers and Calvacade riders and trampers. Inns once endured by mid 19th century tourists are described in their own words. Today there is wonderful accommodation in charming goldfield towns.
Dear Pal,
A Kiwi Battler in the South Island outback
by Barrie Mann
Barrie Mann was born in 1928 in Central Otago and was raised during the Great Depression. He started work when he was fourteen as a Rabbiter and spent most of his working life rabbiting, mustering and shearing sheep in the rugged inhospitable mountains of Central Otago. In 1968 he moved to Timaru where he continued with his shearing work as well as working at other physically demanding manual labouring jobs including High Country fencing, truck driving and mint picking before returning to Central Otago and privately mining for gold.
Snow, the name his family and friends knew him by, worked hard and played hard. He enjoyed many a cold beer and undoubtedly his most enjoyable job was as a beer tanker driver for the brewery in Timaru.
This book is a humorous account of the many hilarious incidents that occurred from his childhood days until retirement. A descendent of the Barrie family that fathered the famous author Sir James Barrie, Snow has drawn on a latent talent to tell his tale. Now bedridden in a home in Timaru this is his last job.
An Abuse of Power
The story of the Clyde Dam
by Judith Wolfe (cartoons) Trevor Reeves (text)
This book details the history of the conception and construction of the Clyde Dam on the Clutha River, Otago, NZ. The problems in construction, earthquake faults, multipole slides in the gorge, political bungling and manipulation, the strikes, delays, cost overruns etc. his book has been updated to include material on the Tuapeka Project (never proceeded with) and the Aqua Project on the lower Waitaki River.
CLYDE ON THE DUNSTAN
A history of early Clyde and nowadays
by Isobel Veitch
Clyde has always held a prominent place in the fascinating history of Central Otago. This little history aims to convey not only some of the essence of what life was like in the bustling "old days" of gold digging, but also to tell of the development of facilities, and of those who keep the spirit of Clyde alive so that today it continues to hold its appeal for residents and visitors alike. Included is an account of the nearby Gorge's mighty river, the carving out of a new highway, the construction of the hydro-electric dam and the creating of Lake Dunstan.
Gold on the Dunstan
Gold mining in Clyde and nearby
by John McCraw
The lure of gold drove miners to prospect much of Central Otago during the nineteenth century. Gold on the Dunstan provides the fullest history yet of over a dozen different diggings in the outlying parts of the Alexandra district, from Campbell Creek to Little Valley, from Fraser Basin to the Manor Burn and from Bald Hill Flat to the Waikerikeri Valley. here is also an account of coal mining at Dairy Creek; a new look at the saga of Feraud and the Clyde water supply, and description of the mining along the 'West Bank' of the Molyneux' with its intriguing herring-bone tailings.
REPLICAR
This book traces the journey of the "Replicar" in 1900 from Christchurch to Oamaru. 100 years later the reconstructed model of the original car built by Fred Dennison made the same journey. Together with an account of the subsequent century of motoring, the authors combine to reveal a fascinating history of motoring in North Otago and beyond
This book was launched on 30 November 2002, in Oamaru. Copies available at a discount of 25%, from this site.
REPLICAR!. 272 pages. $34.95, discount at only $26.20 ISBN 0 908562 53 5
THE GOLDEN JUNCTION
Episodes in Alexandra's History
by John McCraw
Alexandra sits at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia rivers in Central Otago. Beginning in 1862 as a camp site for those rushing to the newly discovered gold field at the Dunstan, the town flourished as a supply and entertainment centre for rich gold diggings nearby. As the easily won gold became exhausted, Alexandra declined towards oblivion, but was saved by the establishment of gold dredges on the rivers. At the end of the century the town boomed again, but as dredging in turn declined, the arrival of the railway allowed a struggling stone fruit growing industry to flourish.
Each chapter of this book deals with a thoroughly researched episode in the fascinating history of the town over its first hundred years.
REAL FIRE - Anthology of 1960's 1970's New Zealand poetry
Selected by Bernard Gadd
The writers and translators included in this enjoyable and interesting collection are:
Jon Adams, Julia Allen, Rosemary Allpress, Tony Beyer, Erick Brenstrum, Geoff Cockrane, Geoffrey Cook, Mana Cracknell, Howard Dengate, Barbara Dent, Henare Dewes, Peggy Dunstan, Rangi Faith, Bernard Gadd, Rupert Glover, Patricia Godsiff, Susan Heap, Stephen Higginson, Keri Hulme, Rob Jackaman, Michael Jackson, Gary Langford, Clive Litt, Don Long, Daryl Mclaren, G. J. Melling, Christopher Middleton, Barry Mitcalfe, John O'Connor, Stephen Oliver, Margaret Orbell, Barry Mitcalfe, , Richard Mudford, Richard Packer, Sarah Pope, Alistair Paterson, Trevor Reeves, Ron Riddell, Colin Rock, Norman Simms, Lindsay Smith, Barry Southam, John Summers, Raymond Ward, J. E. Weir, Alan Wells, Hubert Witheford.
Also available:
BREAKER BREAKER AND OTHER STORIES
Trevor Reeves
"I think that Reeves' view of life is a vitally necessary one because it describes the things he has seen in a way that will linger in the mind. His perceptions of reality are crisp and accurate and he is not afraid of confronting the realities of human experience, never ducking the big questions like the "why's' of life and death. There is a distinction between the male and the female that is refreshing although it is not over-burdened with any imposed conclusion. One comes to conclusions inescapably, however.