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Country of
writing : travel writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 / Lydia Wevers. -
Auckland (New Zealand) : Auckland university press, 2002. -
VI-234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN
1-86940-271-5
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NOTE
DE L'ÉDITEUR : The first
substantial study of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial
period, Country of Writing puts it into the wider
context of the European settlement of new societies. It discusses a
great range of writing often from little-known names and unexpected
sources who all played a part in putting New Zealand on the map of the
wider world.
From Wevers' perspective readers are as important
as the writers, as their interests and expectations often tailored the
kind of travel books that were written, and she shows how New Zealand
was presented to the rest of the world through a rich and colourful
range of voices. Visual impressions of various kinds played a role too
and the book is well-illustrated with contemporary pictures.
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| CONTENTS |
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Captain Ceroni's watch
2. Adventures of the printer
3. Swells' sons run out : the travel writing of rovers,
ramblers and adventurers
4. Travel with interest
5. Empire travellers, 1 : writers who travel
6. Empire travellers, 2 : travellers who write
7. The business of travel
8. Exhausting the wonders
Notes
Select bibliography (pp. 224-230)
Index |
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| COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE |
- « Travelling
to New Zealand » an Oxford anthology ed. by Lydia
Wevers,
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2000
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| mise-à-jour : 16
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