A Gallop to the Antipodes, Returning Overland Through India

Shaw, John (Dr.)

Verlag: J. F. Hope, London, 1858

Beschreibung

Ex-library, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamp on spine and front board. Rebacked. Joints and margins of boards rubbed with abrasions. Leather deteriorating at upper margins of boards. Some wear to leather at head of spine. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Split to gutter after front free endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper, "F. A. Guillaume, Colonial Bookseller, Chester Square, London". ; Rare. iv, 392 pages. 19th century tree calf. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Page dimensions: 188 x 119mm. Contents: Preliminaries of the Voyage; Emigration - Government Rules and Regulations for Emigrants - Dietary Scale for Emigrant Ships; Voyages to Melbourne; Melbourne; Diggers and the Diggings; Voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand; An Excursion from Wellington to Queen Charlotte's Sound; Journey from Queen Charlotte's Sound to Cloudy Bay and Port Underwood; Journey from the Wairau to Giggerigoo Sheep Station; From Wairau to the Town of Nelson - Nelson Diggings; Wanganui; Voyage from Wanganui to Wellington - Wellington; Aborigines of New Zealand; Habits and Manners of the Settlers - Politics; Natural History of the Antipodes - Literature; Voyage from Wellington to Sydney; Calcutta; India; Judicial Reforms of India - Cotton - Literature in India - Board of Control - Christianity in India - Concluding Remarks upon India; Voyage from Calcutta to Suez - Pointe de Galle, in the Island of Ceylon - Aden - The Red Sea - Suez and the Desert - The Desert - Cairo - Alexandria - Malta - Gibraltar; Gibraltar to England - Cadiz - Lisbon - Vigo. "On my arrival in London to make the requisite preparations for a second trip to the Antipodes, I for some time keenly debated with myself whether Liverpool or the metropolis should be my starting-point." - page 1. [References: Bagnall 5145 - "More of intereste than the title might imply: new impressions and changes since his 1852 visit: Queen Charlotte Sound, Kekerengu and Flaxbourne stations, Nelson, Collingwood, Wanganui, Wellington, the Maoris and New Zealand politics, literature and natural history: p.127-227."; Ferguson 15612 - "Voyages to Melbourne and description of Melbourne and the Victorian Diggings. The author also visited New Zealand and describes the Nelson Diggins. Returning to Australia he took ship at Sydney for Calcutta. The Australasian section of the book occupies pp. 1-236."; Hocken pp.192-3 - "A short sketch of the natives, colonists, and politics in the Provinces of Nelson and Wellington."] John Shaw was a Fellow of the Geological and Linnean Societies of London, and the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was also the author of "A Tramp to the Diggings: beings notes of a ramble in Australia and New Zealand in 1852" (1852) and "Travel and Recollections of Travel with a chat upon various subjects" (1857). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23309

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Titel: A Gallop to the Antipodes, Returning ...

Verlag: J. F. Hope, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1858

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good+

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Auflage: First Edition.