MANUSCRIPT
Travels in New Zealand / transcribed by J A Bell
- Date
- 1886, 1993
- By
- Bell, J A (Mr), active 1990s
- Reference
- MS-Papers-6235-3
- Description
Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met.
Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930
In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescript
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Transcriptions (Documents), Typescript
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