Shirley Bagnall Metcalfe

My Three Rivers is a vivid account of the challenges and satisfactions of rural life in the first part of twentieth-century New Zealand, on land defined by unpredictable rivers, few reliable roads, and no bridges. With a sharp and often humorous eye, Shirley Bagnall Metcalfe captures the community at Thames, beside the mouth of the Waihou, where the Bagnall family...