New Zealand, Or, Zealandia, the Britain of the South
Author | : Charles Hursthouse |
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Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : New Zealand |
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Author | : Charles Hursthouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : New Zealand |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Hursthouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : New Zealand |
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Author | : Hamish Campbell |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-08-27 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780143571568 |
*Best Books of 2014* New Zealand Listener Imagine a typical continent with seemingly endless land in all directions. There are broad valleys and uplands, wide-open vistas across undulating plains, and upstanding mountain ranges far in the distance. There may be prominent features that command attention and draw the eye, such as odd-shaped hills, peaks, pinnacles, mesas and volcanoes. And there may be canyons, valleys, gorges, large depressions and basins. Now imagine this same continent under the sea, and largely drowned. Welcome to Zealandia. Continents are some of Planet Earth's most striking geographic and geological features. To have a continental identity is to be important, significant, recognised. This book makes a compelling claim for Zealandia to take its place alongside Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. Zealandia is a continent almost entirely submerged. With New Zealand as its largest inhabited land mass, it stretches north to incorporate New Caledonia, south beyond Auckland and Campbell islands, west beyond Australia's Lord Howe Island and east past the Chathams. Its ancestry reaches back more than half a billion years - a long, complex and dramatic story of growth, stretching, break-up, submergence, immersion and collision. The story of its cargo of plant and animal life is also one of change - of extinction, adaption and migration. A big book full of big ideas, and brought to you by renowned GNS scientists Hamish Campbell (co-author of In Search of Ancient New Zealand) and Nick Mortimer, Zealandia: Our Continent Revealed is in every respect a landmark publication - thought-provoking, visually stunning and eminently readable. 'I couldn't resist this superbly illustrated and persuasively written voyage through the distant past. It's fascinating stuff that will undoubtedly generate considerable debate.' - Christopher Moore, New Zealand Listener
Author | : David Hastings |
Publisher | : Auckland University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1775581357 |
Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of hundreds.
Author | : Colonial Museum (N.Z.). Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Bill Bell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192647504 |
This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.
Author | : Charles Hursthouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Frances Steel |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526119196 |
The age of steam was the age of Britain’s global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out faster, more efficient and more reliable transoceanic networks. But what did this transport revolution look like at the other end of the line, at the edge of empire in the South Pacific? Through the historical example of the largest and most important regional maritime enterprise - the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand - Frances Steel eloquently charts the diverse and often conflicting interests, itineraries and experiences of commercial and political elites, common seamen and stewardesses, and Islander dock workers and passengers. Drawing on a variety of sources, including shipping company archives, imperial conference proceedings, diaries, newspapers and photographs, this book will appeal to cultural historians and geographers of British imperialism, scholars of transport and mobility studies, and historians of New Zealand and the Pacific.