Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900

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Auckland University Press, 2002 - 234 pagina's
This pioneering examination of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period discusses a wide range of writing that helped place New Zealand on the literary map, while providing an oblique history of the young nation in the 19th century. Exploring early newspaper accounts; the journals of missionaries, traders, and adventurers; and the guidebooks and specialized descriptions of fishing, and hunting, which promoted New Zealand as a sporting paradise, Wevers finds that writing about New Zealand was an essential tool in the colonization process.

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Adventures of the printer
34
the travel writing of rovers ramblers and adventurers
61
Travel with interest
96
writers who travel
133
travellers who write
153
The business of travel
169
Exhausting the wonders
187
Notes
210
Select bibliography
224
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Dr. Lydia Wevers, the director of the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, edited Travelling to New Zealand: An Oxford Anthology, Anne Noble: States of Grace, and Goodbye to Romance: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women 1930s–1980s.

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