2025
ISBN: 978-0473534486
A self-drive guide to the engineering heritage of Coastal and Central Otago, encompassing Oamaru, Balclutha and Queenstown. Includes stories about the dams on the Waitaki and Clutha rivers, the modern-day Macraes Gold Mine, Nugget Point Lighthouse, Oamaru’s incredible water race, flour mills, bridges and historic gold sites of various kinds.
Written in an engaging, storytelling voice with ‘engineer’s eye’ photos by the author, these books really do encourage you to take them with you and explore engineering stories hidden in plain sight in the landscape.
Find out how things work, who built them and why, and quirky details that make many features ‘innovative’.
Karen Wrigglesworth is an award-winning author and engineer. Her first ‘Take Me With You!’ book won an Outstanding Contribution to Heritage Award and was Highly Commended at Engineering NZ’s Heritage Awards. Take Me With You 3! received a Charles Fleming Publishing Award from the NZ Royal Society.
