Down South, Bruce Ansley
Down South, Bruce Ansley
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Down South
In Search of the Great Southern Land

Author: Bruce Ansley

Narrator: Kevin Keys

Unabridged: 22 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/07/2020

Synopsis

In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island of New Zealand in search of what makes it unique.
From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character.'A wild and a contemplative journey that gives readers a glimpse of the fascinating stories that made up some of the South Island's glittering past.' - RNZ

About Bruce Ansley

Bruce Ansley has spent much of his life in the South Island. He was raised in New Brighton, Christchurch, and has lived in Dunedin, Christchurch, the Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay. He has grown up with the south's people, its cities, towns, rivers, mountains, bush and plains. He has picked tobacco in Motueka, been a commercial fisherman in Fiordland and a deer farmer on Banks Peninsula. He has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the south too. For almost a quarter of a century he was the Christchurch-based writer for the New Zealand Listener magazine, until he became a full-time author. As a writer, tramper and traveller, and being professionally nosey, he has poked into many corners of the island, although nowhere near all of them: he finds the south and its people endlessly fascinating. He now lives on Waiheke Island to be close to his family, but his heart remains in the south. Down South is his eleventh book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bridget on February 18, 2021

Gosh I liked this! It was very good company as we travelled around the places mentioned in the first half of the book last week. The discovery and consequential rush, when gold was discovered in the south of the South Island of New Zealand has always fascinated me. I grew up in the heart of this, my......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 03, 2024

I’m a kiwi who has lived in Auckland all my life, I picked this book up from the recycle shop at the tip on Waiheke Island. Perfect! I thought, I had a trip planned to go Down South to hike the Copland track outside of Fox glacier. As someone who has never ventured further than Queenstown this book......more

Goodreads review by Helen on November 27, 2020

I loved this book. As a South Islander I related to Bruce Ainsley‘s expedition and learnt something new about the great southern lands history and geography.......more

Goodreads review by Barry on March 24, 2024

Although traces had been found earlier, New Zealand's first substantial gold find was by a fellow called Charles Ligar in the Mataura River, just south of the town of the same name. Gold was found in large quantities in the southern part of the South Island and on the West Cost for the next 30-40 ye......more

Goodreads review by Lesley on September 30, 2023

If you are looking for a book to take you to interesting places in the South Island of New Zealand as well learning about the history of the area, and some fascinating characters, Down South by Bruce Ansley is a good read . His aim in writing the book was to “search for the golden fleece, the pot of......more

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