Chips Off the Auld Rock: Shetlanders in New Zealand
- ISBN-10
- 0473046733
- ISBN-13
- 9780473046736
- Category
- Immigrants
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Authors
- Susan Butterworth, Graham Victor Butterworth
Description
Chips off the Auld Rock is both a history of Shetland settlement and a flavour of Shetland life in New Zealand. The arts of knitting, music, stonemasonary and boatbuilding are all illustrated here.
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