First Year in Canterbury Settlement (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

First Year in Canterbury Settlement (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Synopsis

Butlers first book, published in 1863, is a lively compilation of letters that he sent to his family while working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand for several years. Financed and edited into book form by Butlers father, it is a spirited account of Butlers experiences on the frontier. This volume also includes nineteen early essays on such varied topics as Darwin's "e;Origins of Species."e; "e;The Tempest,"e; English cricketeers, the Italian presthood, and translating Herodotus.