Lady Barker’s sequel to Station Life in New Zealand turns from practical matters to the idler hours of settler life on a sheep station. She describes bush picnics, eel-fishing, pig-stalking, skating and tobogganing in the back country, the business of buying a run, swagmen on the road, and the comic trials of finding and keeping servants.
Witty, observant colonial memoir for readers interested in early New Zealand or in women’s travel writing. Download the free EPUB.