The Giants House
Terraced hillside garden of mosaic sculptures around an 1880s timber mansion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Giants House in Akaroa, near Christchurch, begins with a child looking up at a big Victorian timber house on the hillside and deciding who must live inside. It reaches back to the bank manager it was built for around eighteen eighty, and to the artist Josie Martin, whose first dig in the overgrown garden turned up the leftovers of Akaroa's early days. Best heard on the lower terraces, looking up at the house.
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