Paradise
Historic guest-house settlement in beech forest beneath mountains, with rustic cottages and old chimneys.
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This guide to Paradise, at the head of Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown, follows Jeannie Aitken, who with her husband David ran a remote guest house here from eighteen ninety. It moves through horse-and-buggy guests, a warm visitors' book, and the hard years of the Depression, and asks what a habit of hospitality can cost. Best heard near the old chimneys among the beech trees.
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