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Flashback forward / John Cairney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Black Swan, 2009Description: 362 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869419219
  • 9781869419219
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • NZ823.3 22
Summary: Tam Cochrane is a sickly lad, confined to his bed in Glasgow in the 1880s. His only experience of adventure and the outside world is through books - that is until his father decides to sell up and head for New Zealand. As they take the four-month journey by ship, Tam's health begins to improve, and with it signs of a new Tam, fully engaging in the real world. After arriving in their new country, the family heads to Rotorua and Tarawera, only to be caught in the volcanic eruption of 1886. Having been concussed, Tam wakes up, groggy but still the fit young man he'd been growing into, except he finds he is in Napier, emerging from the ruins of the 1931 earthquake. What has happened to the last 45 years? Why is he still a young man? And who is the other Tam Cochrane, now living like a recluse back in Glasgow?
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection NZ 823.3 CAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A470597B
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NZ 823.3 BOW The red queen / NZ 823.3 BRO Calling the fish & other stories / NZ 823.3 BUR On a good day / NZ 823.3 CAI Flashback forward / NZ 823.3 CAT Red leader down / NZ 823.3 CAT The rehearsal / NZ 823.3 CAT The luminaries /

Tam Cochrane is a sickly lad, confined to his bed in Glasgow in the 1880s. His only experience of adventure and the outside world is through books - that is until his father decides to sell up and head for New Zealand. As they take the four-month journey by ship, Tam's health begins to improve, and with it signs of a new Tam, fully engaging in the real world. After arriving in their new country, the family heads to Rotorua and Tarawera, only to be caught in the volcanic eruption of 1886. Having been concussed, Tam wakes up, groggy but still the fit young man he'd been growing into, except he finds he is in Napier, emerging from the ruins of the 1931 earthquake. What has happened to the last 45 years? Why is he still a young man? And who is the other Tam Cochrane, now living like a recluse back in Glasgow?

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