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Entry updated 18 May 2026. Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of New Zealand author John Petrie (?   -    ), of whom nothing is known beyond his publication of The Secret of Mount Cook: a Myth of South Westland, New Zealand (1894 chap), an adventure story featuring a kind of Time Travel via Suspended Animation, with a frozen body in an Underground cavern within the titular mountain being eventually wakened to life. [DRL]

John Petrie

works

• The Secret of Mount Cook: a Myth of South Westland, New Zealand (Dunedin, New Zealand: Printed at the Otago Daily Times Office, 1894) [chap: pb/]

links

• University of Otago

previous versions of this entry

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