Country of writing : travel writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 / Lydia Wevers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wevers, Lydia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers.

History.

New Zealand--Description and travel.

New Zealand.

Travelers--New Zealand--History.

Travel writing--History.

Travel writing.

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, English.

Physical Description:

vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Captain Ceroni's watch [the Boyd massacre]

Adventures of the printer [Colenso's journals]

Swells' sons run out: the travel writing of rovers, ramblers and adventurers [the Rev. John Williams, John Boultbee, Edward Markham, Augustus Earle, Edward Lucett, George Lillie Craik]

Travel with interest [William Wade, William Yate, W.B. Marshall, Richard Cruise, Henry McKillop, Godfrey Mundy, John Carne Bidwill, J.S. Polack, New Zealand Company authors]

Empire travellers 1: writers who travel [Lord Lyttelton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Anthony Trollope, James Anthony Froude]

Empire travellers 2: travellers who write

The business of travel [Cook's tours, guidebooks, photography]

Exhausting the wonders [Constance Gordon Cumming, George Augustus Sala, stereotypes of Māori].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index.

ISBN:

1869402715

OCLC:

51227343