Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia by James... - 9781108039390

Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and AustraliaAuthor(s): James Coutts Crawford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108039390, 978-1108039390\nSynopsis\nHaving decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford [tel] landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in 1880. Even at that time, New Zealand and Australia had changed radically since Crawford's first arrival in the earliest, minimal colonies; today, his account of.