A Mingled Yarn: The Seifert Family and Flaxmilling in New Zealand.
by Pollard, Jane
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 064644025X
- ISBN 13
- 9780646440255
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Bowral, NSW: Self-Published: Jane Pollard, 2004. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover & first few pages little creased, autograph (author's written name title page). 159 pp. Jane Pollard relates the story of a family who milled flax from Southland to the Waikato in New Zealand. The author is the great-granddaughter of Johann Herrmann Seifert. Using personal letters, diaries, and business correspondence, plus wages books and cutter's tallies from several of his mills, this book traces the flax industry, and the men who worked it, through the turbulent years of two Depressions and two World Wars, and the mingled fortunes of those times.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25218
- Title
- A Mingled Yarn: The Seifert Family and Flaxmilling in New Zealand.
- Author
- Pollard, Jane
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 064644025X
- ISBN 13
- 9780646440255
- Publisher
- Self-Published: Jane Pollard
- Place of Publication
- Bowral, NSW
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- biography, rural, agriculture, farming, flax, business, milling, flaxmilling, history, diaries, pacific, new zealand, autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- RURAL & FARMING;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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