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Riding with Whales

其他書名	Stories of Great Sounds Women
出版	Cape Catley, 1999
ISBN	090856175X9780908561759
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QxNIAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In RIDING WITH WHALES author Heather Heberley interviews women who had spent most or all of their lives in the remote Sounds region of New Zealand. They have great stories to tell about a way of life now mainly gone forever. The impact of whaling on nearly every family, the awesome responsibility for their children's futures when the women were their only teachers and the unbelievable differences which electricity eventually made to their lives - all of these and much more thread through this delightful book. Their stories are dramatic, funny and tragic in turn and always touching in the honesty with which they talk to Heather Heberley. Nobody complains. Nobody dwells on her health problems. As one of them says, looking back on a life of physical danger, loneliness, huge responsibilities and sheer unremitting hard work, 'It's just the way it was.' When today's readers look back on this vanished way of living and wonder whether they could have coped they might find themselves thinking that they simply don't know how lucky they really are!