Charles W.] Chamberlain: Manapouri to Deep Cove: A Pioneer ..., Porirua in Porirua, Wellington for sale

Owner's signature. Label removed from inside front cover. Rubber stamp blacked out on rear endpaper. Staples rusted. Minor creasing to wrappers. Some staining to rear wrapper.; 11 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 139 x 86mm. Uncommon. Includes some historical information about the route, mentioning Professor Mainwaring Brown, Major Goring, John White and Robert Murrell. Also an account of the anonymous author's own expedition."The track cutters did me the honour to suggest that my name should be tacked to this very pretty bit of scenery, as I was the first tourist who had seen it."- page 7."These evidently furnish good pasturage for the kakapos, which abound here. The road party found two that morning sitting in a fuschia tree, in broad daylight, wearing that embarrassed air of having been'out all night, don't you know.'which kakapos so often show. We also saw a fine roa [kiwi]. I should think he stood 3ft high."- page 9."After a change of clothes and an excellent dinner I sat in an easy chair before a blazing fire of manuka logs, my pipe drawing well, listened to the rain on the roof, and sincerely pitied the poor road party shivering in a wet tent and wet clothes over a fire of wet wood with nothing more appetising than cold boiled woodhen for dinner."- final sentence. [Reference: Bagnall sC476d -"Paper read at a meeting of the Otago Institute in June 1891"; Griffiths C43].; 24mo
Charles W.] Chamberlain: Manapouri to Deep Cove: A Pioneer Trip of Thirty-three Years Ago
Author
Charles W.] Chamberlain
Title
Manapouri to Deep Cove: A Pioneer Trip of Thirty-three Years Ago
Publisher name
Otago Daily Times [1924], Dunedin
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1924
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d