Lives & Memoirs
Station Amusements in New Zealand
Mary Anne Barker
1873
5h 58m
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Lady Barker's cheerful recollections of station life on a remote New Zealand sheep run in the colonial era. She recounts the amusements, mishaps, and beauty of the frontier. A charming firsthand sketch of early New Zealand settlement.
Inside this audiobook
18 chapters
- 1Preface1m
- 2Chapter I: A bush picnic35m
- 3Chapter II: Eel-fishing23m
- 4Chapter III: Pig-stalking15m
- 5Chapter IV: Skating in the back country22m
- 6Chaper V: Toboggon-ing15m
- 7Chapter VI: Buying a run23m
- 8Chapter VII: Buying a run -- continued19m
- 9Chapter VIII: Looking for a congregation25m
- 10Chapter IX: Another shepherd's hut18m
- 11Chapter X: Swaggers36m
- 12Chapter XI: Changing servants16m
- 13Chapter XII: Culinary troubles14m
- 14Chapter XIII: Amateur servants23m
- 15Chapter XIV: Our pets24m
- 16Chapter XV: A feathered pet11m
- 17Chapter XVI: Doctoring without a diploma26m
- 18Chapter XVII: Odds and ends12m
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