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Kāpiti history captured in Letters book August 2012
![]() The latest from Awa Press: An Indescribable Beauty Of interest to local historians is the recent publication from boutique publisher Awa Press titled 'An Indescribable Beauty; Letters home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand, 1859 and 1862', by Friederich August Krull. Friederich arrived in New Zealand from Germany in 1859 as a young man in his early twenties and soon became the country's first German Consul. Before departing, he had been asked by his brother-in-lay Ernst Boll, a well-known Neubrandenburg historian and natural scientist, to send reports of life in the new colony. Along with Karl Hartmann, a friend and fellow traveller, Friedrich made several excursions from Wellington through the Hutt Valley, Wairarapa, and Kāpiti districts, as well as to the German settlement of Ranzau near Nelson. The letters of these journeys, which he addressed to his mother, have been translated and supplemented with historical images of the period, including many of people and places that Friedrich visited. An Indescribable Beauty
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