A First Year In Canterbury Settlement

A First Year In Canterbury Settlement
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9361151215

"A First Year in Canterbury Settlement" is a journey narrative written by Samuel Butler, recounting his evaluations at some point of his first year in the Canterbury area of New Zealand. Provides a firsthand account of Butler's observations, reflections, and disturbing conditions as he navigated the early days of European settlement on this a part of the Southern Hemisphere. Butler, an English author first-class acknowledged for works like "Erewhon," embarked on this journey looking for a contemporary life and opportunities within the colony. The narrative captures his impressions of the landscape, climate, and the humans he encountered. It delves into the sensible aspects of putting in place a life in some new and unusual surroundings, together with the stressful situations of building safe haven, cultivating land, and handling the indigenous Maori populace. Beyond the practicalities, Butler's narrative additionally reflects his wit, humor, and keen observations on the social dynamics of the agreement. He offers insights into the cultural clashes and modifications as European settlers interacted with the Maori and with each different. "A First Year in Canterbury Settlement" serves as each a historic document chronicling the early days of European agreement in New Zealand and a non-public account of 1 guy's adventure into the unknown.

Erewhon

Erewhon
Author: Samuel Butler
Publisher: Erewhon Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645660508

A utopian classic with a rich legacy–influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond–Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today. When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines have been eliminated for fear of artificial intelligence. In a society that suppresses originality, the traveler and his values are a threat. Torn between escape and Arowhena, the woman he has grown to love, Higgs must contend with Erewhon's strange ways–and with the challenges they pose to his own beliefs. Engaging with the work of Charles Darwin and inspired by the author’s time in colonial New Zealand, Erewhon is a bright, irreverent, and enduring text about technology, religion, crime, and institutional rigidity. This new edition of the 1872 classic arrives in honor of its 150th anniversary, featuring a brilliant introduction contextualizing the book from one of New Zealand’s great academic thinkers in science fiction, Dr. Octavia Cade.

Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement

Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
Author: Henry Thomas Purchas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1909
Genre: Bishops
ISBN:

Henry John Chitty Harper was born in 1804 in Gosport, Southampton, England and married Emily Wooldridge in 1829. They immigrated to Canterbury, New Zealand in 1856 and he died in 1893.

Samuel Butler against the Professionals

Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Author: David Gillott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351550187

In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.

The Varieties of Temporal Experience

The Varieties of Temporal Experience
Author: Michael D. Jackson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231546440

What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time. Jackson explores temporality in a subjective mode as a form of literary anthropology. The first part of the book tells the story of John Joseph Pawelka, whose 1910 escape from prison and subsequent disappearance became one of New Zealand’s great unsolved mysteries, discussing what it reveals about the interplay of popular stories, hidden histories, and media narratives in constructing allegories of national and moral identity. In the second, Jackson reflects on journeys up and down the islands of New Zealand, touching on the ways that personal stories are interwoven with social and historical events. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the extraordinary variety of temporal experience, at the same time exploring the ethical and existential quandaries that arise from the complexity of lived time.