Overland to the Island
New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck
$43.51
- Paperback
356 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2025
Summary
‘How about going for a drive?’
‘Where?’
‘Around the world.’
Overland to the Island tells the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod’s 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland with their six children, aged five to fifteen. Alan MacLeod – a Dunedin farmer and former WWII artilleryman – whose grandparents emigrated from Skye to New Zealand in the 1860s, had decided it was time to reconnect the family with their clan ancestry and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991348135 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1991348134 |
| Author: | Hannah Bulloch |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Imprint: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 356 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 812g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 158mm x 231mm |
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Hannah Bulloch
Hannah Bulloch was named the 2017 Emerging Writer in Residence for the University Book Shop (Otago) and the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust, and was a 2018 Writer in Residence at the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage. She holds a PhD in social anthropology and a master’s degree in creative writing, and works as a social anthropologist at the University of Otago. Overland to the Island is her first creative non-fiction book. Hannah lives in Otepoti Dunedin.
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