Journey

Station Life in New Zealand

by Lady Barker

Letters home from Mary Anne Barker, who went out to Canterbury in 1865 with her second husband and lived on a sheep station in the hills above the plains. There are floods, a shearing, a ball, and the great snowstorm of 1867 that buried the sheep. It is cheerful, observant and still a pleasure to read.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 10 min

Where to find it

The New Zealand Room, at the Antipodes

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #6104. In the public domain in the United States.