Mungo Park’s Trunk. garden consultant and garden author

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

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

clear and methodical

A very comprehensive and informative book

There is also full details of the official Court of Inquiry into the tragic loss

Mungo Park’s Trunk. garden consultant and garden authorNola 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.