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McHutcheson, William Camp-Life in Fiordland, New Zealand: a Tale of the Sutherland Falls
Wellington Lyon & Blair / Government Printer 1892 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good- with no dust jacket Signed by Author
A nice copy. Some light rubbing and minor marks to the boards. No tears or chips to the cloth. No splitting to the hinges. The always fragile (and usually torn) folding map at the rear has in this copy a single 2 3/4" long tear. ; [4] pages advertisements + ix, [1], 134, [2] pages + frontispiece + 14 plates + folding map + [16] pages advertisements + publisher's slip. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped borders. Gilt lettering on front board. Inscribed by the author on the title page "Mr & Mrs Mervyn Mitchel with the Author's love W.Mc.H". Later owner's signature on front endpaper: "Miss McHutcheson 7 Delta Roslyn Dunedin". "Since privileged last year to survey the exceeding marvels of that portion of Fiordland lying between Te Anau and Milford Sound, the desire to impart some of the pleasure then enjoyed, and to induce others, if possible, to sample for themselves this incomparable Alpine Wonderland, has strongly possessed this writer. " - from the author's preface. "The academic copestone of Zealandia's unapproachable curriculum is undoubtedly the mountains, lakes, and valleys of Fiordland [...] Art thou a teacher or preacher by pen or by voice? Go, wander in Fiordland, and thou shalt never lack a theme [...] Art thou a philosopher whi hast said in thine heart 'There is no God'? Go tell thy dread secret to the sleeping glacier, whisper it to the brimming river, tell it out among the everlasting hills: 'twill do thee good, and may be news to them. " - from the author's conclusion. Contents: Preface; A Public Benefactor; The Picturesque Route to Te Anau; The Pastures of Southland - A Jocund Land; The Merrivale Estate; First Glimpse of the Waiau; A Steep Descent; The Wonderful Waiau Caves; Misleading Maps and Rival Topographers; A Moonlight Stroll; Was is Six, Sixteen, or Sixty Miles? ; The Blackmount Hill; A Picturesque Scene; Our Midday Camp; 'On the Wallabi'; Excelsior! ; Manipori; Fording the Mararoa; Lynwood Station; Te Anau Lake; An Alpine Steamer and Crew; Loading up Firewood; 'Greased Lightning'; Incidents of Sea Life; 'Tea O! '; Fire on Ship-board; A Soft-soap Pantomime; 'Full Bustin'-power in the Toobes'; Scenery of Te Anau; Shipwreck extraordinary; Landing at the Clinton; An Alpine Cottage; A keen Artist; The Soft-soap Rehearsal; 'Full Bustin'-power in the Toobes' again; Morn in an Alpine Fiord; A Boating Picnic; Magnificent Scenery; A Crystal Sea; A marvellous Picture; Duck-shooting extraordinary; More Duck-shooting extraordinary; 'You shut the wrong Eye! '; Exploring the Worsley; An Alpine Gorge; St. Mary's Falls; Scudding Home; The 'Falls Party'; A Clinton Guide; A silent Millionaire and the loquacious Cockney; 'Fried Eel an' stooed Duck'; 'I likes my Muffins steaming 'ot'; A New Zealand Marmion and Douglas; 'And dar'st thou then to beard the Weka in his Den? '; Maister Broon o' Kilmarnock; A substantial 'Tocher'; A heartless Plot; Alone on a drifting Steamer; 'Am I tae be blawn up or sookit doon? '; 'It's a deevilish intack, that's whit it is'; The Bush Swag; Getting ready for the Road; A swell Jacket; Farewell to the 'Te Uira'; Travelling up the Clinton; Bush and River Scenery; The Clinton Valley; Unparalleled Grandeur; The New Zealand Yosemite; An Alpine Avalanche; 'Get under and weigh it yourself'; Pompalona Settlement; Pilgrim; Rob Roy Macgregor O! ; St. Quentin Falls; 'Twas a calm, still Night'; An Alpine summer Shower; Clinton Appetites; A tall Yarn; A bush Librarian; Pompalonas; Mr. Jones and the suet Candles; 'Am, Sammy! 'am! And in this 'ere ut'! '; Killing Time in Camp; The Philosopher's Paradoxes; Mac and his Pocket Aneroid; Clericus; Divine Service in the Clinton; A Transformation-scene; Heights of glistening Alabaster and Walls or Parian Marble; A sun-lit Temple of surpassing Beauty; Memory a gracious Handmaiden; Starting for Sutherland Falls; Mysterious Death of a Kaka; A Magistrate in Trouble; Serious Court-case; An exquisite piece of Scenery; Lake Mintaro; A canyon of the Rocky Mountains; A steep Climb; Climbing through the Snow; Summit of the Pass; View from Mount Hart; The grandest View in the World; Gleaming Icefields; 'But what of the Valleys below? '; Descending a Snow-slope; The Philosopher's dynamic Discourses; Making a Bee-line over the Snow; A 2, 000ft. Staircase; Hopping extraordinary; Beech Hut; A But but no Ben; A midday Lunch; A shady Avenue; Voices of the Night; Sutherland Falls: the Eighth Wonder; A superb Picture; Quill's 2, 000ft. Climb; The noblest Monument in the World; A Shaft of polished Granite, A Mile and a Quarter High! ; Early Explorations; Joe's River; In the Valley of the Arthur; Discovery of McKinnon's Pass; Perils of Exploring; Unexplored Fiordland; First Ascent of Mount Hart; The grandest view in the World; Re-ascending the Pass; Making Poetry; The Flora of Fiordland; A Legend about 'Ashfelters'; 'Seven Miles and a Bittock'; 'Glissading'; 'Sair forfouchen an' disjaskit'; 'They; ll no dee! '; An aqueus Journey; Fording a Mountain-torrent; A thousand Waterfalls: a glorious Spectacle; A prodigious Rainfall; Return to Te Anau; A State Banquet; 'Four by Honours'; An Alpine Scene by Moonlight; Amateur Settlers; The unresponsive Oar; Leaving the Clinton; The romping North Wind; A superb Soil; The musical Divine; The Philosopher; 'Whose Socks? '; 'Mine? '; An amazing Problem; Butchered to make a marine Holiday; A powerful Imagination broke adrift; Depth of Te Anau; Stocking with Fish; Disappearance of Native Game; Last of the Apteryx; Supplying the Vacuum; 'A Rattling Run'; Garden Point; Attacked by a Moa; Last Night of Camp-life; Making Things 'hum'; The Philosopher's Song; A Gaelic Song and alarmed Englishman; 'Man, that's a Peety'; An old philological Battle; Ossian and Macpherson; Fingal, the King of Stormy Sema; A Monkey Yarn; Concluding Thoughts; The Switzerland of the Southern Hemisphere; Physical Features of Fiordland; The Botanist's Paradise; Scenic Comparison; Swiss and American Scenery; The Scenic Route of the World; The Undeveloped Wealth of Fiordland; The Storehouse of future Energy; The Tourist Traffic; A greater than Mount Morgan; A Mine of perpetual Wealth; The real value of Fiordland; The Future New-Zealander; The true home of Genius; Zealander's Divine Heritage; 'Go to the Land of the Mist'. [Reference: Bagnall M285]. ; 8vo ; Signed by Author
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264.38 NZD
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McHutcheson, William Camp-Life in Fiordland, New Zealand: a Tale of the Sutherland Falls
Wellington Lyon & Blair / Government Printer 1892 First Edition Original Cloth Fair with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Some splits to cloth along joints. Some chips to cloth at ends of spine and at corners of boards. Front hinge broken. Lacking the folding map at the rear (only a few small pieces of the map are present). First leaf of advertisements detached and loose. Some old adhesive tape stains to the title page and to the card of pseudonym correspondences which was formerly taped down to the title page. Small ink stain to title page. Wrinkles to cloth on front and rear boards. ; This copy is of particular interest because on both the rear free endpaper and on a piece of card someone (the handwriting is not McHutcheson's) has written out in ink the actual identities of several characters referred to within this travel narrative only by pseudonyms, hence "Clericus" is the Rev. S. R. Fellows, "Editor + Pilgrim" is Mr Galloway, & "Rob Roy" is Mr George Robertson. This copy is also inscribed by the author to the wife of one of these characters, "To Mrs Alex Galloway / In memory of my dear friend 'Pilgrim' with the author's kind regards, WMcH". [4] pages advertisements + ix, [1], 134, [2] pages + frontispiece + 14 plates + [16] pages advertisements + publisher's slip. Lacking the folding map at the rear. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped borders. Gilt lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. "Since privileged last year to survey the exceeding marvels of that portion of Fiordland lying between Te Anau and Milford Sound, the desire to impart some of the pleasure then enjoyed, and to induce others, if possible, to sample for themselves this incomparable Alpine Wonderland, has strongly possessed this writer. " - from the author's preface. "The academic copestone of Zealandia's unapproachable curriculum is undoubtedly the mountains, lakes, and valleys of Fiordland [...] Art thou a teacher or preacher by pen or by voice? Go, wander in Fiordland, and thou shalt never lack a theme [...] Art thou a philosopher whi hast said in thine heart 'There is no God'? Go tell thy dread secret to the sleeping glacier, whisper it to the brimming river, tell it out among the everlasting hills: 'twill do thee good, and may be news to them. " - from the author's conclusion. Contents: Preface; A Public Benefactor; The Picturesque Route to Te Anau; The Pastures of Southland - A Jocund Land; The Merrivale Estate; First Glimpse of the Waiau; A Steep Descent; The Wonderful Waiau Caves; Misleading Maps and Rival Topographers; A Moonlight Stroll; Was is Six, Sixteen, or Sixty Miles? ; The Blackmount Hill; A Picturesque Scene; Our Midday Camp; 'On the Wallabi'; Excelsior! ; Manipori; Fording the Mararoa; Lynwood Station; Te Anau Lake; An Alpine Steamer and Crew; Loading up Firewood; 'Greased Lightning'; Incidents of Sea Life; 'Tea O! '; Fire on Ship-board; A Soft-soap Pantomime; 'Full Bustin'-power in the Toobes'; Scenery of Te Anau; Shipwreck extraordinary; Landing at the Clinton; An Alpine Cottage; A keen Artist; The Soft-soap Rehearsal; 'Full Bustin'-power in the Toobes' again; Morn in an Alpine Fiord; A Boating Picnic; Magnificent Scenery; A Crystal Sea; A marvellous Picture; Duck-shooting extraordinary; More Duck-shooting extraordinary; 'You shut the wrong Eye! '; Exploring the Worsley; An Alpine Gorge; St. Mary's Falls; Scudding Home; The 'Falls Party'; A Clinton Guide; A silent Millionaire and the loquacious Cockney; 'Fried Eel an' stooed Duck'; 'I likes my Muffins steaming 'ot'; A New Zealand Marmion and Douglas; 'And dar'st thou then to beard the Weka in his Den? '; Maister Broon o' Kilmarnock; A substantial 'Tocher'; A heartless Plot; Alone on a drifting Steamer; 'Am I tae be blawn up or sookit doon? '; 'It's a deevilish intack, that's whit it is'; The Bush Swag; Getting ready for the Road; A swell Jacket; Farewell to the 'Te Uira'; Travelling up the Clinton; Bush and River Scenery; The Clinton Valley; Unparalleled Grandeur; The New Zealand Yosemite; An Alpine Avalanche; 'Get under and weigh it yourself'; Pompalona Settlement; Pilgrim; Rob Roy Macgregor O! ; St. Quentin Falls; 'Twas a calm, still Night'; An Alpine summer Shower; Clinton Appetites; A tall Yarn; A bush Librarian; Pompalonas; Mr. Jones and the suet Candles; 'Am, Sammy! 'am! And in this 'ere ut'! '; Killing Time in Camp; The Philosopher's Paradoxes; Mac and his Pocket Aneroid; Clericus; Divine Service in the Clinton; A Transformation-scene; Heights of glistening Alabaster and Walls or Parian Marble; A sun-lit Temple of surpassing Beauty; Memory a gracious Handmaiden; Starting for Sutherland Falls; Mysterious Death of a Kaka; A Magistrate in Trouble; Serious Court-case; An exquisite piece of Scenery; Lake Mintaro; A canyon of the Rocky Mountains; A steep Climb; Climbing through the Snow; Summit of the Pass; View from Mount Hart; The grandest View in the World; Gleaming Icefields; 'But what of the Valleys below? '; Descending a Snow-slope; The Philosopher's dynamic Discourses; Making a Bee-line over the Snow; A 2, 000ft. Staircase; Hopping extraordinary; Beech Hut; A But but no Ben; A midday Lunch; A shady Avenue; Voices of the Night; Sutherland Falls: the Eighth Wonder; A superb Picture; Quill's 2, 000ft. Climb; The noblest Monument in the World; A Shaft of polished Granite, A Mile and a Quarter High! ; Early Explorations; Joe's River; In the Valley of the Arthur; Discovery of McKinnon's Pass; Perils of Exploring; Unexplored Fiordland; First Ascent of Mount Hart; The grandest view in the World; Re-ascending the Pass; Making Poetry; The Flora of Fiordland; A Legend about 'Ashfelters'; 'Seven Miles and a Bittock'; 'Glissading'; 'Sair forfouchen an' disjaskit'; 'They; ll no dee! '; An aqueus Journey; Fording a Mountain-torrent; A thousand Waterfalls: a glorious Spectacle; A prodigious Rainfall; Return to Te Anau; A State Banquet; 'Four by Honours'; An Alpine Scene by Moonlight; Amateur Settlers; The unresponsive Oar; Leaving the Clinton; The romping North Wind; A superb Soil; The musical Divine; The Philosopher; 'Whose Socks? '; 'Mine? '; An amazing Problem; Butchered to make a marine Holiday; A powerful Imagination broke adrift; Depth of Te Anau; Stocking with Fish; Disappearance of Native Game; Last of the Apteryx; Supplying the Vacuum; 'A Rattling Run'; Garden Point; Attacked by a Moa; Last Night of Camp-life; Making Things 'hum'; The Philosopher's Song; A Gaelic Song and alarmed Englishman; 'Man, that's a Peety'; An old philological Battle; Ossian and Macpherson; Fingal, the King of Stormy Sema; A Monkey Yarn; Concluding Thoughts; The Switzerland of the Southern Hemisphere; Physical Features of Fiordland; The Botanist's Paradise; Scenic Comparison; Swiss and American Scenery; The Scenic Route of the World; The Undeveloped Wealth of Fiordland; The Storehouse of future Energy; The Tourist Traffic; A greater than Mount Morgan; A Mine of perpetual Wealth; The real value of Fiordland; The Future New-Zealander; The true home of Genius; Zealander's Divine Heritage; 'Go to the Land of the Mist'. [Bibliographical Reference: Bagnall M285]. ; 8vo ; Signed by Author
Price:
235.00 NZD
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