Station Life in New Zealand
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
- Author: Mary Anne Barker
- Date Published: June 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108029612
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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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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108029612
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Two months at sea. Melbourne
2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne
3. On to New Zealand
4. First introduction to 'station life'
5. A pastoral letter
6. Society. Houses and servants
7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood
8. Pleasant days at Ilam
9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children
10. Our station home
11. Housekeeping, and other matters
12. My first expedition
13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore
14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings
15. Everyday station life
16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge
17. My first and last experience of 'camping out'
18. A journey 'down south'
19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick
20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867
21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush
22. The exceeding joy of 'burning'
23. Concerning a great flood
24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.
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