Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in Nineteenth-century New Zealand - Alison Clarke Book Departments to the challenges posed by

to the challenges posed by young female voices like Annemarieke Van Drimmelen

Combining more than 900 drawings and the skills of twelve accomplished illustrators

and hand techniques

from the earliest notation to the minimalism of the twentieth century

' - New York Times `Lonely Planet

Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in Nineteenth-century New Zealand - Alison Clarke Book Departments to the challenges posed byEmerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before 'safe' Caesarean sections and registered midwives, nineteenth century birthing practice in New Zealand was typically determined by culture, not nature or the state. Alison Clarke works from the heart of this practice, presenting a history balanced in its