LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND

LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
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Title: LETTERS FROM EARLY NEW ZEALAND
Author(s): GODLEY, Charlotte
Category: New Zealand - General History
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Medium Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1936
Published By: Whitcombe & Tombs
Edition: 1951
Pages: 386
Size (mm): 145 w x 220 h x 35 d

Condition

Excellent, damaged remains of dust jacket, handling wear on board covers, name on end paper, pages reasonably clean with the odd mark including on end papers. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

First published in 1936.
This is one of the most important and most readable records of pioneering in Canterbury during 1850.

Charlotte Godley left England for New Zealand late in 1849, with her husband John R. Godley, a prominent member of the Canterbury Association, which arranged for settlers to come Canterbury. These detailed letters to her mother in England, from 1850 to 1853, provide an important historical record of what the earliest settlers found, how they coped with problems. adversity, primitive conditions and some hardship as they created the foundations of what was to become a major city, an economic and agricultural powerhouse of early NZ.

Monochrome images and drawings.

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