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Like us and join our yearround celebration of great books. I read the fatal shore, a book about australian history and funnily enough read it during my trip to new zealand years ago, so i never got around finding a book on new zealand history. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an. Also available as an ebook platinum premier new zealand. King was educated at victoria university of wellington, and then became a journalist in waikato.
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