Country of writing : travel writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 / Lydia Wevers.

Author/Creator:

Wevers, Lydia.

Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2002.

Format/Description:

Book
vi, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

New Zealand -- Description and travel.
Travelers -- New Zealand -- History.
Travel writing -- History.
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.

Contents:

Captain Ceroni's watch [the Boyd massacre]
Adventures of the printer [Colenso's journals]
Swells' sons run out: the travel writing of rovers, ramblers and adventurers [the Rev. John Williams, John Boultbee, Edward Markham, Augustus Earle, Edward Lucett, George Lillie Craik]
Travel with interest [William Wade, William Yate, W.B. Marshall, Richard Cruise, Henry McKillop, Godfrey Mundy, John Carne Bidwill, J.S. Polack, New Zealand Company authors]
Empire travellers 1: writers who travel [Lord Lyttelton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Anthony Trollope, James Anthony Froude]
Empire travellers 2: travellers who write
The business of travel [Cook's tours, guidebooks, photography]
Exhausting the wonders [Constance Gordon Cumming, George Augustus Sala, stereotypes of Māori].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-230) and index.

ISBN:

1869402715 (pbk.)

OCLC:

51227343

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