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Station Life in New Zealand (Paperback) Loot Price: R878
Discovery Miles 8 780
Station Life in New Zealand (Paperback): Mary Anne Barker

Station Life in New Zealand (Paperback)

Mary Anne Barker

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania

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Written by the adventurous and widely travelled Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831 1911), this 1870 publication records 'the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep farmer'. Born in Jamaica and educated in England and France, Barker married her second husband in 1865 and spent the next three years living on his sheep station on the South Island. This book is based on letters written to Barker's younger sister, beginning with an account of her two-month voyage to Melbourne and her onward journey via Nelson and Wellington to Christchurch. Barker vividly describes her domestic surroundings, friends, neighbours, servants, her first (and last) experience of camping, the Canterbury landscape and vegetation, and the 7,000 sheep on the farm. Her enthusiastic personal account of Victorian colonial expansion captures the 'delight and freedom of an existence so far from our own highly-wrought civilization'.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
Release date: June 2011
First published: February 2011
Authors: Mary Anne Barker
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-02961-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 1-108-02961-2
Barcode: 9781108029612

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