{"product_id":"station-life-in-new-zealand-paperback-9781108029612","title":"Station Life in New Zealand (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108029612","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStation Life in New Zealand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily life on a sheep station in colonial New Zealand, enthusiastically described in Barker's letters, first published in 1870.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary Anne Barker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108029612, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWritten by the adventurous and widely travelled Lady Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), this 1870 publication records 'the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep farmer'. Born in Jamaica and educated in England and France, Barker married her second husband in 1865 and spent the next three years living on his sheep station on the South Island. This book is based on letters written to Barker's younger sister, beginning with an account of her two-month voyage to Melbourne and her onward journey via Nelson and Wellington to Christchurch. Barker vividly describes her domestic surroundings, friends, neighbours, servants, her first (and last) experience of camping, the Canterbury landscape and vegetation, and the 7,000 sheep on the farm. Her enthusiastic personal account of Victorian colonial expansion captures the 'delight and freedom of an existence so far from our own highly-wrought civilization'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Two months at sea. Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e 3. On to New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e 4. First introduction to 'station life'\u003cbr\u003e 5. A pastoral letter\u003cbr\u003e 6. Society. Houses and servants\u003cbr\u003e 7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood\u003cbr\u003e 8. Pleasant days at Ilam\u003cbr\u003e 9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children\u003cbr\u003e 10. Our station home\u003cbr\u003e 11. Housekeeping, and other matters\u003cbr\u003e 12. My first expedition\u003cbr\u003e 13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore\u003cbr\u003e 14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings\u003cbr\u003e 15. Everyday station life\u003cbr\u003e 16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge\u003cbr\u003e 17. My first and last experience of 'camping out'\u003cbr\u003e 18. A journey 'down south'\u003cbr\u003e 19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick\u003cbr\u003e 20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867\u003cbr\u003e 21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush\u003cbr\u003e 22. The exceeding joy of 'burning'\u003cbr\u003e 23. Concerning a great flood\u003cbr\u003e 24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Australasian \u0026amp; Pacific history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Australasian%20\u0026amp;%20Pacific%20history%20%5BHBJM%5D%22\"\u003eHBJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913317671192,"sku":"9781108029612","price":25.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108029612i_9c87810f-c08c-4f73-8d47-f0551663370a.jpg?v=1694873554","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/station-life-in-new-zealand-paperback-9781108029612","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}