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Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker, now made available in digital pdf ebook reader format.

Station Life in New Zealand, is a memoir by Lady Barker, compiled in a series of letters, to her sister who was in England.

Born Mary Anne Stewart, she became Lady Barker when her late husband, Captain George Robert Barker was knighted for his leadership at the Siege of Lucknow.

Lady Barker remarried Frederick Napier Broome after her husband’s death, still calling herself “Lady Barker”. The couple sailed to New Zealand in late 1866, which set the backdrop for the memoir Station Life in New Zealand.

Readers get a rare glimpse into life of the early colonial days, in the Canterburry foothills, from a female perspective. In Lady Barker’s vivid descriptions of life reality on a frontier, the storms, finding practical solution to any situation, about relationships and the cultures, leaving the readings wanting for more.

Station Life in New Zealand e-book was well written and very readable. Lady Barker’s amusing and humorous way in seeing the world then, in its highs and lows, with a lot of personal insight and love for the land. It provides a fascinating look at the early days of Canterbury.

In her delightful and intelligent way of writing, readers get to read not only the day-to-day of her home life on a sheep farm, but seeing the character of a sense of true blue adventurer and a can-do attitude.

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