TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hobbs, Mary,
TI  - High country stations of Lake Tekapo
SN  - 9780947503475
U1  - 636.3 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Nelson, New Zealand 
PB  - Potton & Burton
KW  - Sheep ranches
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Mackenzie District
KW  - History
KW  - Sheep ranchers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Country life
KW  - High Country (South Island)
KW  - Hill farming
KW  - Mackenzie District (N.Z.)
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Tekapo -- Mt Hay -- Richmond -- Mt Gerald -- Lulybank -- Godley Peaks -- Glenmore -- Balmoral
N2  - 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 Heavily illustrated with both contemporary images and many old, previously unpublished photographs
ER  -