James Coutts Crawford

Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9781020687556
• ISBN-10: 102068755X
• Artikelnr.: 68656786

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Overland journey from Sydney to Adelaide in the years 1838-9
First arrival in New Zealand
To Queen Charlotte's Sound
Across the Straits and back
First settlement at Wellington
A voyage to Sydney
A ride from Wellington to the Manawatu
A voyage to England
Return to New Zealand in 1846
A walk to the Wairarapa
A trip to Taranaki
Journey to the Whanganui
On the Whanganui River
On the Whanganui River continued
To Lake Taupo and back
Topini
Return to Whanganui
Up the Manawatu River
A journey from the Upper Hutt to Waikanae
Excursion from Whanganui to the Waitotara district
Journey to explore the main range of Tararua
Journey to the northern peninsula of the Auckland province
Up the Waikato and Waipa
A visit to Lake Coleridge
Two nights at Motunau
A visit to the Hurunui Lakes
Journey from Christchurch to Dunedin
From Dunedin to Lake Wakatipu and Invercargill
Invercargill and thence to Dunedin
Excursion to Tuapeka with Dr Hector
Havelock and the Pelorus Sound
A journey from New Zealand to Tasmania and Australia
New Zealand politics
The Maori language, its orthography compared
A chapter on geology
On the origin, character, and religion of the Maori race
New Zealand considered physically and agriculturally
Voyage from New Zealand to England via America
The conquests of Great Britain and the British race.