About the Author

Geoffrey Rice is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, where he taught for nearly 40 years until his recent retirement. He has written illustrated histories of Christchurch and Lyttelton, a biography of Sir Heaton Rhodes, and two books about crimes and scandals in nineteenth-century Christchurch, all published by Canterbury University Press. His account of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, Black November, was shortlisted in the History section of the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.