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A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

Samuel Butler

FormatEbook
Published2002
Words44,678
LanguageEnglish
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About this book
Drawn from Samuel Butler's letters and journals, this account describes his voyage to New Zealand and his experiences as a sheep farmer in the Canterbury settlement. It suits readers interested in colonial New Zealand history, nineteenth-century emigration, or Butler's life before his literary career.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English author of the Victorian era, best known for the satirical utopian novel *Erewhon* and the semi-autobiographical novel *The Way of All Flesh*. He also wrote critical works challenging Darwinian evolution and translated Homer's *Iliad* and *Odyssey* into prose.

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