Country of writing
Subtitle: travel writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900
By: Lydia Wevers.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Travelers -- New Zealand -- Intellectual life.; Travel writing -- History.; Travelers' writings, English -- New Zealand -- History and criticism.; New Zealand -- Description and travel.
Description: "Country of Writing examines the vast literature of travel that brought New Zealand into the newsstands, libraries and smoking rooms of Europe, and connected the new colony to the interests of empire. By the time Anthony Trollope arrived in Orago in 1872 more than 400 books had been written about New Zealand. This original book shows how the cultural effects of European expansionism are expressed through travel and travel writing, from the pages of the Sydney Gazette to journals of adventure, scientific papers, published diaries, guidebooks and long numbered letters read over breakfast tables in the Home Counties."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Captain Ceroni's watch [the Boyd massacre]; title: Adventures of the printer [Colenso's journals]; title: 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]; title: 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]; title: Empire travellers 1: writers who travel [Lord Lyttelton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Anthony Trollope, James Anthony Froude]; title: Empire travellers 2: travellers who write; title: The business of travel [Cook's tours, guidebooks, photography]; title: Exhausting the wonders [Constance Gordon Cumming, George Augustus Sala, stereotypes of Māori].