Country of Writing
Writing Travel and Travel Writing About New Zealand 18091935
Nonfiction, Travel, Australia & Oceania
| Author: | Dr. Lydia Wevers | ISBN: | 9781775580539 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press | Publication: | September 1, 2002 |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dr. Lydia Wevers |
| ISBN: | 9781775580539 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Publication: | September 1, 2002 |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Language: | English |
This 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.
This 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.
