Lady Barker

Gebundenes Buch

Station Life In New Zealand

Beschreibung

Christchurch is very prettily situated; for although it stands on a perfectly flat plain, towards the sea there are the Port Hills, and the town itself is picturesque, owing to the quantities of trees and the irregular form of the wooden houses; and as a background we have the most magnificent chain of mountains--the back-bone of the island--running from north to south, the highest peaks nearly always covered with snow, even after such a hot summer as this has been.

Autor

She primarily wrote about her experiences in New Zealand. She was the eldest daughter of Walter Steward, Jamaica's Island Secretary, and was born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Mary Anne was given the title "Lady Barker" after Barker was knighted for his leadership during the Siege of Lucknow. Barker died eight months later. Mary Anne Barker married Frederick Napier Broome on June 21, 1865. They subsequently set ship for New Zealand, leaving her two children behind in England. The couple's first child was born in February 1866 in Christchurch, but died in May. By this time, they had relocated to the sheep station Steventon, which Broome had purchased in collaboration with H. P. Hill.

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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9781161454253
• ISBN-10: 116145425X
• Artikelnr.: 31011089