This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling, fantastical, and utopian site of romance and subsequent satire for five middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Examining their dreams and experiences and the writing produced from their travels, chapters illuminate how contact with England's opposite and mirror produced literary studies of motion, distance, inversion, primitivism, and travels in time and space, foregrounding the empire's instrumental shaping of literary form, challenging realism with romance and gesturing towards science fiction and modernism.

This compilation of stimulating 10-minute exercises addresses new trends in the mastery of keyboarding skills. It also meets the requirements of the new syllabus. All typists, whether they are beginners typing 15 wpm, or advanced students at 75 wpm, will benefit from graded exercises that gradually increase syllabic intensity a completely new approach. The exercises in this title not only test the student, but are informative and thought-provoking, linking learning with technical progress. Keyboarding speed and accuracy exercises is an essential tool and an integral part of the training programme of aspirant typists.