Samuel Butler

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

With Other Early Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Butler's first book, published in 1863, is a lively compilation of letters that he sent to his family while working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand for several years. Financed and edited into book form by Butler's father, it is a spirited account of Butler's experiences on the frontier. This volume also includes nineteen early essays on such varied topics as Darwin's "Origins of Species." "The Tempest," English cricketeers, the Italian presthood, and translating Herodotus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411440289
• Artikelnr.: 50389221

Autorenporträt

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was an iconoclastic English author of a variety of works. Two of his most famous works are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that remain in use to this day.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Embarkation at Gravesend
2. Life on board
3. Aspect of Port Lyttelton
4. Sheep on terms, schedule and explanation
5. Ascent of the Waimakiriri
6. Hut
7. Loading day
8. Taking up the run
9. Plants of Canterbury
10. Choice of a run.