Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817–89) landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in 1880. Even at that time, New Zealand and Australia had changed radically since Crawford's first arrival in the earliest, minimal colonies; today, his account offers not only a fascinating insight into the difficulties and dangers of life there, but a useful source for students and researchers in history and geology.

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Product details
- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108039390
- length: 504 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 22 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Overland journey from Sydney to Adelaide in the years 1838–9
First arrival in New Zealand
To Queen Charlotte's Sound
Across the Straits and back
First settlement at Wellington
A voyage to Sydney
A ride from Wellington to the Manawatu
A voyage to England
Return to New Zealand in 1846
A walk to the Wairarapa
A trip to Taranaki
Journey to the Whanganui
On the Whanganui River
On the Whanganui River continued
To Lake Taupo and back
Topini
Return to Whanganui
Up the Manawatu River
A journey from the Upper Hutt to Waikanae
Excursion from Whanganui to the Waitotara district
Journey to explore the main range of Tararua
Journey to the northern peninsula of the Auckland province
Up the Waikato and Waipa
A visit to Lake Coleridge
Two nights at Motunau
A visit to the Hurunui Lakes
Journey from Christchurch to Dunedin
From Dunedin to Lake Wakatipu and Invercargill
Invercargill and thence to Dunedin
Excursion to Tuapeka with Dr Hector
Havelock and the Pelorus Sound
A journey from New Zealand to Tasmania and Australia
New Zealand politics
The Maori language, its orthography compared
A chapter on geology
On the origin, character, and religion of the Maori race
New Zealand considered physically and agriculturally
Voyage from New Zealand to England via America
The conquests of Great Britain and the British race.

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