World War I (and its aftermath) in the words of a young soldier fresh off a remote New Zealand farm, written with immediacy, emotion and clarity.
Ian Trafford can be found thinking in the vege patch, writing while
slumped on the couch, or at the beaches and in the bush of his
local Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand - taking time out,
working with his camera or guiding hiking tourists.
During his childhood on a farm near Te Karaka, west of Gisborne,
his father came home one day with his grandfather's secret First
World War diaries. Ian soon knew that some day the real, raw story
of our Kiwi boys in this un-great war, and afterwards, needed to be
told.
The time to write came decades later, once other work was done-
teaching, guiding river rafters and sea kayakers, writing school
reading books and a guidebook, full-time photography, and in times
of desperation, pulling apples from the trees of orchardists or
stuffing hops into a shredder.
The story from the diaries was written on the couch, with lots of
emotion, as if his old grandad, Alick, was sitting there as well.
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