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Station Life in New Zealand

Lady Mary Anne Barker

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Two months at sea, then a raw sheep station at the edge of the settled world. In letters home, Lady Barker describes arriving in New Zealand and learning station life from scratch: the house, the society, the wide pastoral country. A charming, clear-eyed account of colonial settlement. Travel back with a woman who made a home in the wild.

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28 chapters

  1. 1STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND
  2. 21883
  3. 3Preface.
  4. 4Letter I: Two months at sea—Melbourne.
  5. 5Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.
  6. 6Letter III: On to New Zealand.
  7. 7Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."
  8. 8Letter V: A pastoral letter.
  9. 9Letter VI: Society.—houses and servants.
  10. 10Letter VII: A young colonist.—the town and its neighbourhood.
  11. 11Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.
  12. 12Letter IX: Death in our new home—New Zealand children.
  13. 13Letter X: Our station home.
  14. 14Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.
  15. 15Letter XII: My first expedition.
  16. 16Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality.—a gale on shore.
  17. 17Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.
  18. 18Letter XV: Everyday station life.

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