Author : Lady Barker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266657378
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)
Book Synopsis Station Life in New Zealand (Classic Reprint) by : Lady Barker
Download or read book Station Life in New Zealand (Classic Reprint) written by Lady Barker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Station Life in New Zealand These Letters, their writer is aware, justly incur the reproach of egotism and triviality; at the same time she did not see how this was to be avoided, without lessening their value as the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They are published as no guide or handbook for the intending emigrant that person has already a literature to himself, and will scarcely find here so much as a single statistic. They simply record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer and, as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.