Amelia Batistich

Amelia Batistich QSM (née Barbarich; 11 March 1915 – 21 August 2004) was a New Zealand fiction writer of Croatian descent. Quotes The bootprints of history tramp through my children's veins. I hear my father telling me about the great road that ran above his village right along the Adriatic. Napoleonova Cesta he called it proudly. Napoleon's road. It was built by Marshal Marmont when Napoleon made him governor of the Dalmatia that the Emperor renamed Illyria, giving it back its ancient name. Was Marshal Marmont the Duc de Dalmatie who signed with a flourish the document giving the Nanto-Bordelaise Company the charter for French settlement in Akaroa ? I like to think he was.” External links Category:Women authors from New Zealand Category:Novelists from New Zealand Category:Memoirists from New Zealand Category:Short story writers from New Zealand Category:1915 births Category:2004 deaths Category:Women born in the 1910s