Country of Writing
Travel Writing and New Zealand
Published on 1. December 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-86940-271-6 (ISBN)
Description
The author explores early newspaper accounts, the diaries and journals of missionaries, traders, soldiers and adventurers, the travel books of professional writers like Trollope, Froude and Constance Gordon Cumming, and the growth of the tourism indusry with its specialised guidebooks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Auckland
New Zealand
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
40 illustrations, bibliog , index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86940-271-6 (9781869402716)
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Additional editions
E-Book
09/2002
Auckland University Press
€39.49
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Person
Dr. Lydia Wevers, the director of the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, edited Travelling to New Zealand: An Oxford Anthology, Anne Noble: States of Grace, and Goodbye to Romance: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women 1930s-1980s.