Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900This pioneering examination of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period discusses a wide range of writing that helped place New Zealand on the literary map, while providing an oblique history of the young nation in the 19th century. Exploring early newspaper accounts; the journals of missionaries, traders, and adventurers; and the guidebooks and specialized descriptions of fishing, and hunting, which promoted New Zealand as a sporting paradise, Wevers finds that writing about New Zealand was an essential tool in the colonization process. |
Contents
Adventures of the printer | 34 |
the travel writing of rovers ramblers and adventurers | 61 |
Travel with interest | 96 |
writers who travel | 133 |
travellers who write | 153 |
The business of travel | 169 |
Exhausting the wonders | 187 |
Notes | 210 |
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