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Hobbs, Mary, (Author and photographer),

High country stations of Lake Tekapo / Lake Tekapo Mary Hobbs. - Nelson, New Zealand Potton & Burton 2017. - 155 pages : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 24 x 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Tekapo -- Mt Hay -- Richmond -- Mt Gerald -- Lulybank -- Godley Peaks -- Glenmore -- Balmoral.

Lake Tekapo, with it's dazzling blue glacial water and backdrop of the Southern Alps, is one of the major drawcards of the South Island's Mackenzie Country. While most people's experience of Tekapo is the bustling tourist village, there is also another whole community beyond this settlement of iconic high-country stations that occupy the sweeping tussock land surrounding the Lake. This book tells the stories of these courageous and tough farming families, who choose to live and work in this spectacular, but unforgiving country with its extremes of cold and heat, devastating snowfalls and huge winds. Author Mary Hobbs, a long-time resident of the Mackenzie Country, has unravelled the history of eight stations from around Lake Tekapo - Godley Peaks, Lilybank, Mt Gerald, Richmond, Mt Hay, Tekapo, Balmoral and Glenmore. Using both old accounts and interviews with current station holders and many others with connections to these stations, she has assembled a set of stories that capture the flavour and character of a unique part of rural New Zealand. Heavily illustrated with both contemporary images and many old, previously unpublished photographs.

ISBN: 9780947503475 0947503471

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sheep ranches--History.--New Zealand--Mackenzie District
Sheep ranchers--New Zealand--Biography.
Country life--New Zealand--High Country (South Island)
Hill farming--New Zealand--Mackenzie District.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mackenzie District (N.Z.)--History.
Mackenzie District (N.Z.)--Pictorial works.

Dewey Class. No.: 636.3