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Ian TraffordIan Trafford

Ian Trafford lives near Abel Tasman National Park and has worked as a tourist guide and photographer, as well as writing a guidebook and books for school reading. Penguin has just published his latest project: Into the Unknown, based on his grandfather's diaries of WW1.

My grandfather wanted his secret war diary burned. I’ve just published it.

20 August 2020 by Ian Trafford

Nelson writer and photographer Ian Trafford on the fraught origins of his new book, Into the Unknown. Alick survived World War I by the skin of his teeth, and thus so did his illicit diaries, and now my book. I called my grandfather Papa as a child, and by the time I was born into … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags diary, Gisborne, Memoir, war, World War One

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