Research Catalog

Title

Travelling to New Zealand : an Oxford anthology / edited by Lydia Wevers.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wevers, Lydia.

Description

xiii, 281p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Travelers' writings from 1826 to 1996 with the focus on the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth.

Subject

• Travelers' writings, English > New Zealand
• Travelers > New Zealand > History
• Travelers' writings
• travel literature
• Travelers' writings
• Travelers
• Travel
• Travelers' writings, English
• New Zealand > Description and travel
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index.

Contents

Shoes on the beach (1826) / John Boultbee -- Chasing the French (1832) / Frederick Montresor -- Original tattooed gentlemen (1834) / Edward Markham -- To Queen Charlotte's Sound (1839) / J.C. Crawford -- An object of attraction (1840) / Alexander Marjoribanks -- Divine worship at sea (1841) / Alfred Fell -- Harty and weel (1841) / Henry Woulden -- Voyage in a whale-boat (1842) / R.G. Jameson -- Visiting the mission (1844) / Mary Davis Wallis -- The straggling village of Auckland (1846) / W. Tyrone Power -- Maori in Auckland (1847) / G.C. Mundy -- My Dearest K (1848) / Thomas Arnold -- The shore of New Zealand (1851) / William Kennaway -- Sailors' Home (1852) / John Rochfort -- Travelling to Napier (early 1850s) / Edward Wilson -- Ferry over the Rangatikei (1854) / L.C. Richardson -- At the ferry-house, Wairarapa (1850s) / C.R. Carter -- Mutiny on the Red Jacket (1860) / J.E. Gorst -- Hard up (1866) / H.W. Nesfield -- Hokitika (1866-67) / C.W. Dilke -- The Galatea in Auckland (1871) / Master Smiles -- Smells on board (1871) / Master Smiles -- Reception at the Ormonds (1872) / Henry Brown -- Life on board the steamer (1872) / George Chapman -- Dinner from a Maori oven (1872) / J. Ernest Tinne -- Antipodean remoteness (1872) / Anthony Trollope -- Travelling by winter in Otago (1872) / Anthony Trollope -- Bathing at the Pink Terraces (1872) / Anthony Trollope -- A pleasure trip (1872) / H.B. Morton -- Overland to Taranaki (1872) / H.B. Morton -- On the Nevada in a hurricane (1873) / Isabella Bird -- A wild new country (1873) / Henry Scou -- Rowing on the Avon (c. 1875) / W. Little -- The first concert in Popotunoa (1876) / David Kennedy, Jnr -- Perilous fording of the Waitaki (1876) / David Kennedy, Jnr -- A lady traveller (1877) / C.F. Gordon Cumming -- The trouble with sketching (1877) / C.F. Gordon Cumming -- Spending the night at Tahake (1877) / Alfred Maudslay -- Christmas Day amongst the Maoris (1876) / James Hingston -- The Duke of Berry at Akaroa (1877) / A. German Lady -- Maori at Tauranga (late 1870s) / William Senior -- Mr. Jones at Rotomahana (1877) / A. German Lady -- With the Maoris (1880) / W. Towers Brown -- Food and fire at Kumara (1881) / James Edge Partington -- Brown bread (1882) / Thorpe Talbot -- Fire at Te Ore Ore (1883) / Hugh Stanley Head -- The haka, Sophia, and the White Terrace (1883) / B.H. Barton -- Te Tarata (1883) / J. Kerry-Nicholls -- Graffiti on the Terraces (1885) / C.E.R. Schwartze -- A Maori school at the Terraces (1885) / Frank Henley -- Small miseries (1885) / James Anthony Froude -- Kate or Sophia (1885) / James Anthony Froude -- En plein pays des Maoris (1885) / Emile Wenz -- My lodging is on the cold ground (1885) / George Augustus Sala -- Steaming to Kinlock (1885) / J. Herbert Roberts -- Soup on board the Zealandia (1885) / Russell J. Colman -- Unhomelike (1886) / Annie Butler -- Oysters at Bluff (1886) / M.M. Ballou -- After the eruption (1887) / J.L. Lambe -- A picnic at Hunua (1888) / E.W. Payton -- Life on board a first-class liner (1889) / M.E.M. -- Wirth's Wild West Show (1890) / Philip Wirth -- A pleasant party in the West Coast Sounds (1890) / C.R. Sail -- Eating kiwi (1891) / Rudyard Kipling -- The box seat (1891) / John MacGregor -- The Flora (1895) / Mark Twain -- The loss of Letter III (1898) / Charles Trevelyan -- An adventure (1898) / Beatrice Webb -- Travelling companions (late 1890s) / Rowan -- A party in Rotorua (1901) / John Ferguson -- The Wanganui River (1904) / Beatrice Grimshaw -- Crossing the Mararoa River (1904-05) / Lucy Broad -- A sample menu (1906) / W.R. Trench -- Two whole males in Rotorua (1906) / E. Way Elkington -- Cooped up on the river (1907) / Alys Lowth -- Three absolutely drunken young bush-cutters (1910) / Count Fritz von Hochberg -- Worth seven week's sea-journey (1910) / Count Fritz von Hochberg -- The Travellers' Rest (1909-10) / James Mackintosh Bell -- Marooned at Pompolona (1913) / Stanley Unwin and Severn Storr -- On the Track (1914) / Mary Hall -- All about Auckland (1914) / G.L. Morrill -- Landing difficulties (1923) / Alma M. Karlin -- The Hotel St. George (1930) / Angela St. Clair Erskine -- The wettest walk in the world (1931) / Marie Byles -- Bare brown country (1932) / Ardasar Sorabjee N. Wadia -- They do love New Zealand! (1930) / Bohumil Pospisil -- Visiting the blow-hole (early 1930s) / S.E.G. Ponder -- Glorious Manapouri (1945) / Frances Ahl -- The tour group (1953) / Ray Dorien -- The People's Palace (1955) / Tom Houston -- The view from Viet Nam (1961) / Trinh Khanh Tuoc -- Tuataras on the Brothers (1962) / Gerald Durrell -- Incredibly dull (early 1960s) / Sarah Mussen -- Rain in Fiordland (1968-69) / Eric Hiscock -- Magical transport facilities (1973) / J.B. Priestley -- The Bruce Mountain Folk Museum (late 1980s) / P.J. Kavanagh -- London from the Routeburn (1992) / Paul Theroux -- At Cape Reinga (1991) / Kate Llewllyn -- Boomtown Rotorua (1996) / John Ruck.

ISBN

• 0195584112 (hbk.)
• 9780195584110 (hbk.)

LCCN

00456148

OCLC

• ocm45829409
• 45829409
• SCSB-1256388

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library