TY - BOOK AU - Wevers,Lydia TI - Travelling to New Zealand: an Oxford anthology SN - 0195584112 U1 - 919.304 PY - 2000/// CY - Auckland, N.Z. PB - Oxford University Press KW - Travelers' writings, English KW - New Zealand KW - Description and travel N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -