Station Life in New Zealand

Klappentext Daily life on a sheep station in colonial New Zealand! enthusiastically described in Barker's letters! first published in 1870. Zusammenfassung First published in 1870! Lady Barker's enthusiastic description of three years spent on a sheep station in New Zealand is full of intriguing insights into colonial life. These letters to her sister record the 'delight and freedom' of Barker's daily life and surroundings! as well as some daunting adventures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Two months at sea. Melbourne; 2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne; 3. On to New Zealand; 4. First introduction to 'station life'; 5. A pastoral letter; 6. Society. Houses and servants; 7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood; 8. Pleasant days at Ilam; 9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children; 10. Our station home; 11. Housekeeping, and other matters; 12. My first expedition; 13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore; 14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings; 15. Everyday station life; 16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge; 17. My first and last experience of 'camping out'; 18. A journey 'down south'; 19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick; 20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867; 21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush; 22. The exceeding joy of 'burning'; 23. Concerning a great flood; 24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.

Product details

• Authors: Lady Mary Anne Barker, Mary Anna Barker, Mary Anne Barker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108029612
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02961-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, Travel writing, Australasian & Pacific history, New Zealand, Australasian and Pacific history, New Zealand / Aotearoa