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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10591967117604 |
| SKU: | A4/2609/U422 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR76 (44) |
| Category: |
New Zealand History: Farms & Stations New Zealand History: General |
| New / Used: | Used |
Description
THE WATER JOEY: The Old Wheat Mills of Canterbury
by Mona Anderson
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 058900980
Format: medium hardcover with dust jacket
Published: AH & AW Reed 1976, reprinted 1977
Size (mm): 195 w x 270 h x 20 d
Pages: 118
SKU: A4/2609/U422
ABOUT
A nostalgic look at the old wheat mills of Canterbury and the men and women who served them.
The title refers to a "water joey"—the worker responsible for carrying water to fill the heavy steam-driven traction engines that powered traveling threshing mills. Drawing from historical research and the memories of itinerant labourers who worked at Mount Algidus Station.
Anderson captures the golden era of high-country grain farming and details the days when a Canterbury autumn meant miles of waving wheatfields harvested by horse-drawn buggies and heavy machinery.
It serves as a vital record of early New Zealand farming life, complete with an extensive collection of monochrome historical photographs documenting the old traction engines and threshing crews.
Includes two separate pages of poetry on the subject.
CONDITION
Excellent with only light wear/spine fading on dust jacket, name on end paper.
IMAGES
Are of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce
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