Kaipara; or, experiences of a settler in North New Zealand
Kaipara; or, experiences of a settler in North New Zealand

Author: P. W. Barlow

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13:

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On the second day of July 1883, the writer of this book, P. W. Barlow, in company with his wife, six children, a servant girl, and a full-rigged sailing ship, arrived at the port of Auckland. Their voyage had occupied one hundred and six days, and everyone concerned was mightily sick of it. Barlow is a civil engineer by profession, and having for some time finding it very difficult to obtain employment in the old country, rejoiced in the prospect of getting work in New Zealand in connection with a land company, who were the owners of a large tract of land—500,000 acres—situated as nearly as possible in the center of the north island.

Godwits
Godwits

Author: Keith Woodley

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1743487215

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This highly illustrated book tells the story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it. It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in northern New Zealand, a mudflat on the Chinese-North Korean border, or a tundra nesting site in Alaska. Keith Woodley, godwit expert and manager of the Miranda Shorebird Centre in New Zealand, details the amazing changes these bird undergo before and during their voyages - from moulting into new plumage, to doubling their weight and shrinking non-essential body organs - as well as their array of innate skills in weather prediction and global navigation, weaving the latest scientific findings into history, literature and folklore. In Godwits the author's eye-witness accounts and meticulous research culminate in a tale of navigation and stunning fortitude that will delight both professional bird watchers and general readers curious to discover more about one of nature's quiet achievers.

Anxious Times
Anxious Times

Author: Amelia Bonea

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0822986604

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Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.