Leap of Faith

Leap of Faith
Jenny Pattrick
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NZ$ 38.00
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NZ$ 30.99
Trade Paperback
Not defined - 352pg
3 Apr 2017 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9780143770916
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A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky heights, the engineers, chainmen, plate-layers, navvies and draught horses had to work on through horrendous weather to meet the impossible deadline. Drawn to the remote but growing settlements of the workers' tents, boarding and cookhouses came miners from Denniston, young men fresh off the boat, sly-groggers, temperance campaigners, local Maori, preachers and a varied assortment of people after a new life or a quick buck. It would take more than a leap of faith to bind this disparate group into an efficient workforce ...
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780143770916
Published: 3 Apr 2017
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Black Swan NZ
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 352

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