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Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I

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Number of Chapters: 39

Length: 10 hours and 32 minutes

Language: English

“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, others covered with shrubs, while on all of them steam issued from a hundred openings between the green foliage without impairing its freshness: on the opposite side a flight of broad steps of the colour of white marble with a rosy tint, and a cascade of boiling water falling over them into the lake!”

Such is Ernest Dieffenbach’s description of his first glance of the White Terraces in Lake Rotomahana, see cover image.

Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach (aka Ernest) traveled to New Zealand between 1839 and 1841 employed by the New Zealand Company as naturalist. He traveled in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island and extensively throughout the North Island at an early time in European settlement. In Volume I of “Travels in New Zealand” he describes his travels, integrating his observations of the natural world with the progress of colonisation, and a humane account of the Māori people that he met and their culture, settlements and inter-tribal politics. He made an important contribution to the early knowledge of the New Zealand flora and fauna, with his collections eventually being lodged in the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Note: Māori words have been pronounced as spelled in the text, which is occasionally different to modern spelling and pronunciation.
(summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

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01 - Preface and CHAPTER I (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
02 - CHAPTER II, Part 1 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
03 - CHAPTER II, Part 2 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
04 - CHAPTER II, Part 3 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
05 - CHAPTER III, Part 1 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
06 - CHAPTER III, Part 2 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
07 - CHAPTER III, Part 3 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
08 - CHAPTER IV (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
09 - CHAPTER V (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
10 - CHAPTER VI (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
11 - CHAPTER VII, Part 1 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
12 - CHAPTER VII, Part 2 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
13 - CHAPTER VII, Part 3 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
14 - CHAPTER VIII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
15 - CHAPTER IX (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
16 - CHAPTER X (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
17 - CHAPTER XI (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
18 - CHAPTER XII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
19 - CHAPTER XIII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
20 - CHAPTER XIV (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
21 - CHAPTER XV (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
22 - CHAPTER XVI (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
23 - CHAPTER XVII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
24 - CHAPTER XVIII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
25 - CHAPTER XIX (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
26 - CHAPTER XX, Part 1 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
27 - CHAPTER XX, Part 2 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
28 - CHAPTER XXI (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
29 - CHAPTER XXII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
30 - CHAPTER XXIII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
31 - CHAPTER XXIV, Part 1 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
32 - CHAPTER XXIV, Part 2 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
33 - CHAPTER XXIV, Part 3 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
34 - CHAPTER XXIV, Part 4 (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
35 - CHAPTER XXV (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
36 - CHAPTER XXVI (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
37 - CHAPTER XXVII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
38 - CHAPTER XXVIII (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
39 - CHAPTER XXIX (Gail Timmerman Vaughan)
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