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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake
  

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Van Beynen, Martin

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'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgeha ...

ISBN 9780143567233
Published 25 January 2012 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Blue Water: Stories from a Life Afloat
  

Blue Water: Stories from a Life Afloat (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Wright, Lindsay

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Blue Water is a collection of true adventure stories from a writer in love with the sea ... From an action-packed journey to the Arctic ice pack, encounters with whales and storms, to rescuing a derelict yacht - only to later be washed ashore on a New Zealand beach - Lindsay Wrig ...

ISBN 9781869509002
Published 1 December 2010 by HarperCollins
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The Bushwhackers: Hunting Adventures on Stewart Island
 

The Bushwhackers: Hunting Adventures on Stewart Island (Trade Paperback/Paperback, 2012 reprint)

By Taylor, Dean

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A the age of 16, Dean Taylor was invited to go on his first hunting party to Stewart Island and since then he has returned 21 times. These tales capture the comraderie and the isolation that is experienced while hunting in such a remote part of the world.

ISBN 9781869537470
Published 20 July 2009 by David Bateman Ltd
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The Quake Year
  

The Quake Year (Paperback)

By Farrell, Fiona; Photographs by Nicholas, Juliet

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It was interesting what people in the checkout line were buying: it was all comfort food. The man in front of me had eggs, bacon, cigarettes, beer. And here we were buying pink buns. No one was buying sensible emergency rations like baked beans..." "It was just the most wonderful ...

ISBN 9781927145296
Published 9 May 2012 by Canterbury University Press
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Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake
  

Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake (Paperback)

By Bowron, Jane

On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron had been living back in her hometown of Christchurch for three years when the city was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake - just five months after a 7.1 earthquake. The first quake had caused damage but no fatalities. This time it wa ...

ISBN 9781877551307
Published 31 October 2011 by Awa Press
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Old Bucky and Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake
 

Old Bucky and Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake (Paperback, 2nd edition)

By Bowron, Jane; Foreword by O'Regan, Pauline

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Journalist Jane Bowron's weekly newspaper columns detailing her experiences in Christchurch following the February 2011 earthquake. Includes 25 additional columns added since the 1st edition"--Publisher information.

ISBN 9781877551406
Published 23 May 2012 by Awa Press
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Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys
 

Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys (Paperback)

Edited by Hayward, Maria

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The stories in this book are all personal accounts of refugee displacement, journeys, survival and, eventually, resettlement in New Zealand.

ISBN 9781927184035
Published 24 January 2012 by Aut Centre for Refugee Educato
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In Endless Fear: A True Story
 

In Endless Fear: A True Story (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Crump, Colin

Colin Crump is Barry Crump's younger brother. His stories of an often-idyllic country boyhood, running wild half a century ago, are interwoven with almost unbearable scenes in which an abusive father delivers brutal beatings to his spirited sons.

ISBN 9780143018230
Published 8 June 2002 by Penguin
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Three Times Dead But Still Alive
 

Three Times Dead But Still Alive (Paperback)

By Walker, Deborah

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This is the extraordinary autobiographical story of one family's faith in the face of crisis; a true testament of courage, determination, forgiveness and love. Surviving a horrific motor vehicle accident, they can witness that God is found in the deepest valley.

ISBN 9780473177225
Published 1 January 2010 by Castle Publishing Ltd
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The Voyage of the Roxane: A True Kiwi Yachting Adventure
 

The Voyage of the Roxane: A True Kiwi Yachting Adventure (Paperback)

By Dawson, Keith

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n the 24th May 1937, the author's twenty-fourth birthday, a small 26foot yacht left Auckland Harbour to commence a winter crossing of the stormy Tasman Sea to Australia. Along with Keith Dawson was his friend and the yacht's co-owner, Dick Wellington, (later killed over Europe as ...

ISBN 9780473178482
Published 14 March 2011
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