by Jock Phillips
New Zealand’s countryside has long been mythologised as a new Garden of Eden, and New Zealanders have been stereotyped as pioneering people of the land. As early as 1911, more people lived in urban areas rather than in rural areas, but the central place of the countryside in New Zealand’s national identity has carried on.
Main image: Colin Meads, All Black rugby player and farmer
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