Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady Barker
Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady Barker
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Lively colonial sketches from rural New Zealand
Fair Condition – Vintage book in fair condition with visible spotting and binding wear.
Lady Barker records the entertainments, inconveniences and everyday surprises of station life in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Drawing on personal experience, she describes picnics, riding, visitors, household challenges and the social world of settlers with a keen eye and lively humour. Her sketches reveal both the pleasures and assumptions of colonial life, making the book an engaging historical document as well as an entertaining memoir. Station Amusements in New Zealand offers modern readers a vivid period perspective on domestic life, landscape and community in the colony.
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