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Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia
James Coutts Crawford
出版Cambridge University Press, 1880
主題History / Australia & New ZealandLaw / Essays
ISBN11080393919781108039390
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EIwrAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817-89) landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in 1880. Even at that time, New Zealand and Australia had changed radically since Crawford's first arrival in the earliest, minimal colonies; today, his account offers not only a fascinating insight into the difficulties and dangers of life there, but a useful source for students and researchers in history and geology.