title: An Immigrant's Sojourn in the Land of the Long White Cloud: A memoir of life in New Zealand
author: Marcia Heinegg
description: Entering a writing workshop in her retirement years was a pursuit of passion for Marcia. The result was her first book: "California to New Zealand the Long Way," published in 2008. Marcia lives in Santa Cruz with her photographer husband, Chris; they travel frequently to their beloved land: Aotearoa: Land of the Long White Cloud. Marcia teaches writing classes under her business name Write Your Future.
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  Text copyright © 2007 by Verlagsgruppe Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG, Bergisch Gladbach
  
  English translation copyright © 2012 by D. W. Lovett
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
   _In the Land of the Long White Cloud_ was first published in 2007 by
  Verlagsgruppe Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG as _Im Land der weißen Wolke_. Translated
  from German by D.W. Lovett. Published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2012.
  
  Published by AmazonCrossing  
  P.O. Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
  ISBN-13: 9781612184265  
  ISBN-10: 161218426X
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940831
  
   **Contents**
  
  PART ONE  
  Setting 