Travelling to New Zealand : an Oxford anthology /
New Zealand
edited by Lydia Wevers.
- xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-277) and index.
Illustrations -- Introduction -- Shoes on the beach (1826) -- Chasing the French (1832) -- Original tattooed gentlemen (1834) -- To Queen Charlotte's Sound (1839) -- An object of attraction (1840) -- Divine worship at sea (1841) -- Harty and weel (1841) -- Voyage in a whale-boat (1842) -- Visiting the mission (1844) -- The straggling village of Auckland (1846) -- Maori in Auckland (1847) -- My Dearest K (1848) -- The shore of New Zealand (1851) -- Sailors' Home (1852) -- Travelling to Napier (early 1850s) -- Ferry over the Rangatikei (1854) -- At the ferry-house, Wairarapa (1850s) -- Mutiny on the Red Jacket (1860) -- Hard up (1866) -- Hokitika (1866-67) -- The Galatea in Auckland (1871) -- Smells on board (1871) -- Reception at the Ormonds (1872) -- Life on board the steamer (1872) -- Dinner from a Maori oven (1872) -- Antipodean remoteness (1872) -- Travelling by winter in Otago (1872) -- Bathing at the Pink Terraces (1872) -- A pleasure trip (1872) -- Overland to Taranaki (1872) -- On the Nevada in a hurricane (1873) -- A wild new country (1873) -- Rowing on the Avon (c. 1875) -- The first concert in Popotunoa (1876) -- Perilous fording of the Waitaki (1876) -- A lady traveller (1877) -- The trouble with sketching (1877) -- Spending the night at Tahake (1877) -- Christmas Day amongst the Maoris (1876) -- The Duke of Berry at Akaroa (1877) -- Maori at Tauranga (late 1870s) -- Mr. Jones at Rotomahana (1877) -- With the Maoris (1880) -- Food and fire at Kumara (1881) -- Brown bread (1882) -- Fire at Te Ore Ore (1883) -- The haka, Sophia, and the White Terrace (1883) -- Te Tarata (1883) -- Graffiti on the Terraces (1885) -- A Maori school at the Terraces (1885) -- Small miseries (1885) -- Kate or Sophia (1885) -- En plein pays des Maoris (1885) -- My lodging is on the cold ground (1885) -- Steaming to Kinlock (1885) -- Soup on board the Zealandia (1885) -- Unhomelike (1886) -- Oysters at Bluff (1886) -- After the eruption (1887) -- A picnic at Hunua (1888) -- Life on board a first-class liner (1889) -- Wirth's Wild West Show (1890) -- A pleasant party in the West Coast Sounds (1890) -- Eating kiwi (1891) -- The box seat (1891) -- The Flora (1895) -- The loss of Letter III (1898) -- An adventure (1898) -- Travelling companions (late 1890s) -- A party in Rotorua (1901) -- The Wanganui River (1904) -- Crossing the Mararoa River (1904-05) -- A sample menu (1906) -- Two whole males in Rotorua (1906) -- Cooped up on the river (1907) -- Three absolutely drunken young bush-cutters (1910) -- Worth seven week's sea-journey (1910) -- The Travellers' Rest (1909-10) -- Marooned at Pompolona (1913) -- On the Track (1914) -- All about Auckland (1914) -- Landing difficulties (1923) -- The Hotel St. George (1930) -- The wettest walk in the world (1931) -- Bare brown country (1932) -- They do love New Zealand! (1930) -- Visiting the blow-hole (early 1930s) -- Glorious Manapouri (1945) -- The tour group (1953) -- The People's Palace (1955) -- The view from Viet Nam (1961) -- Tuataras on the Brothers (1962) -- Incredibly dull (early 1960s) -- Rain in Fiordland (1968-69) -- Magical transport facilities (1973) -- The Bruce Mountain Folk Museum (late 1980s) -- London from the Routeburn (1992) -- At Cape Reinga (1991) -- Boomtown Rotorua (1996) -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Index.
Travellers' writings from 1826 to 1996 with the focus on the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth.