A First Year in Canterbury Settlement


Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan

(5 stars; 4 reviews)

Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Although the son of a Church of England clergyman, Butler arrived in Canterbury intent on making his fortune from sheep farming. "A First Year in Canterbury Settlement" colourfully describes his experiences including his travels on horseback up the Canterbury rivers to eventually find the high country sheep run where he established his station "Mesopotamia". Samuel Butler returned to England in 1864, having made a profit from the sale of Mesopotamia. Samuel Butler is best known for his novels "Erewhon" and "The Way of All Flesh". (Summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan) (4 hr 22 min)

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Introduction and Preface 9:50 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER I 25:13 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER II 16:10 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER III 11:56 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER IV 39:55 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER V 16:18 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER VI 22:37 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER VII 39:48 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER VIII 23:34 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER IX 18:58 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan
CHAPTER X 37:54 Gelesen von Gail Timmerman Vaughan

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(5 stars)

Gail Timmerman Vaughan has a lovely warm voice & reads this well Fascinating glimpse of life for settlers in NZ Butler was too cosmopolitan to settle there but he did well to sell up profitably