A group of six teenagers and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier go camping overnight on a cattle property in Central Queensland, Australia. Things start to go amiss with a personality clash and get worse when a huge electrical storm brews. The campers seek shelter in a large shed and are amazed at what they discover inside. The conflict and tension builds between the characters with the mounting storm until someone in the group sets things in motion by activating a prototype time machine and the...

Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society.The authors establish the dimensions of Scottish migration to New Zealand, the principal...