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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
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Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a professional watercolour artist
specialising in colonial themes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy
from the age of thirteen and in 1815 travelled to the
Mediterranean. He spent the next fifteen years touring the world
and in 1832, when this book was published, was briefly employed by
Darwin on H.M.S. Beagle, though he left that expedition in
Montevideo owing to ill health. The first part of the book
describes Earle's experiences in New Zealand, where he observed in
detail the lifestyle of the pre-colonial Maori and the early
European settlers. The second part tells how in 1824 Earle,
travelling from Rio to Cape Town, found himself left behind on the
Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha and spent eight months sharing
the simple life of the tiny British community there and tutoring
their children until finally a rare passing ship took him on board.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Title: A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand, in
1827; together with a journal of a residence in Tristan d'Acunha,
etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books
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offers titles providing historical context for modern day
Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia,
and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes
studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage,
Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of
sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data
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British Library Earle, Augustus; 1832. 8 . 10492.dd.6.
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