Isbn: 9781869536060 (2 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy. Tells the dramatic life story of William Larnach, one of New Zealand's most colourful nineteenth‑century businessmen and politicians. Best known today for building Larnach Castle on the Otago Peninsula—now a major Dunedin landmark—Larnach lived a life marked by ambition, wealth, scandal, and ultimately tragedy. Snedden traces his rise through banking, commerce, and politics during a period when New Zealand was transforming from a young colony into a confident nation. The book explores his bold business ventures, his turbulent family life, and the pressures that culminated in his shocking suicide in Parliament Buildings in 1898—the only New Zealand politician to do so.…