James Bragge, Making a Homestead, Forty Mile Bush near Woodville (ca 1878).
Te Papa, D.000152. Used with permission.
Occasional thoughts and reflections during the course of the Settler Environments project
Philip Steer
Most of the nineteenth-century texts I look at say something about the way that British culture was imposed and adapted in New Zealand.
It's much rarer to see something that moves the other way.
