Kiwis Might Fly - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies bones into cutlery, bushwhacking pioneers, and gold miners who lit their pipes with banknotesand comes face-to-face with their surprisingly tame descendants. So what had become of the mighty Kiwi warrior? As Polly tears through the countryside at seventy-five miles an hour, she attempts to solve this mystery while pub-crawling in Hokitika, scaling the Southern Alps, and enduring a hair-raising stay in a mining town where the earth has been known to swallow houses whole. And as she chronicles the thrills and travails of her extraordinary odyssey, Pollys search for the elusive Kiwi comes full circleteaching her some hilarious and surprising lessons about motorcycles, modern civilization, and men.


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 ⚡️Book Title : Kiwis Might Fly
⚡Book Author : Polly Evans
⚡Page : 309 pages
⚡Published March 27th 2007 by Delta (first published 2004)

Kiwis Might Fly

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies bones into cutlery, bushwhacking pioneers, and gold miners who lit their pipes with banknotesand comes face-to-face with their surprisingly tame descendants. So what had become of the mighty Kiwi warrior? As Polly tears through the countryside at seventy-five miles an hour, she attempts to solve this mystery while pub-crawling in Hokitika, scaling the Southern Alps, and enduring a hair-raising stay in a mining town where the earth has been known to swallow houses whole. And as she chronicles the thrills and travails of her extraordinary odyssey, Pollys search for the elusive Kiwi comes full circleteaching her some hilarious and surprising lessons about motorcycles, modern civilization, and men.