Station Life in New Zealand

Station Life in New Zealand

By Lady Barker
Michael Caine
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Length6h 19m

About this audiobook

Station Life In New Zealand is a biography by Lady Barker. It chronicles the voyage one of brave woman's experience of moving to New Zealand and making a life in Canterbury between 1866 and 1868.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

11883
15Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality.—a gale on shore.
2Preface.
16Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.
3Letter I: Two months at sea—Melbourne.
17Letter XV: Everyday station life.
4Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.
18Letter XVI: A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge.
5Letter III: On to New Zealand.
19Letter XVII: My first and last experience of "camping out."
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6Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."
20Letter XVIII: A journey "down south."
7Letter V: A pastoral letter.
21Letter XIX: A Christening gathering.—the fate of Dick.
8Letter VI: Society.—houses and servants.
22Letter XX: the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867.
9Letter VII: A young colonist.—the town and its neighbourhood.
23Letter XXI: Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush.
10Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.
24Letter XXII: The exceeding joy of "burning."
11Letter IX: Death in our new home—New Zealand children.
25Letter XXIII: Concerning a great flood.
12Letter X: Our station home.
26Letter XXIV: My only fall from horseback.
13Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.
27Letter XXV: How We lost our horses and had to walk home.
14Letter XII: My first expedition.

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