2 Jul 2013

Gwynnie Peacock

From Afternoons, 2:10 pm on 2 July 2013

In 1939, Gwynnie Peacock made her way from Auckland to England, keeping a diary of everything she saw. She travelled through the Gulf of Aden, and visited Germany under Hitler, documenting her observations in a series of remarkable journals that run to hundreds of thousands of words.

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