Mungo Park’s Trunk. Britain and France

Britain and France

including history and stories of the wine pioneers who created the industry that produced a world champion Pinot Noir in 2000

garden consultant and garden author Helen Dillon shares her lifetime of gardening experience

ISBN 9781876473013

clear and methodical

Mungo Park’s Trunk. Britain and FranceNola Easdale. The interesting and complex history of colonial surveyor Robert Park who arrived at Port Nicholson (Wellington) in 1839. He fathered three families and this is their history, and that of their children. It also solves the mystery of how a trunk that once belonged to the explorer of West Africa, Mungo Park, ended up in the possession of a Maori family in Petone. Te Waihora Press, Christchurch, 2009. ISBN 9780908714100 Softback. 280 pages.