A First Year In Canterbury Settlement Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Samuel Butler's 1863 account of his experiences as a sheep farmer in New Zealand, which inspired his novel Erewhon.

Excerpt from A First Year in Canterbury Settlement: With Other Early Essays Since Butler's death in 1902 his fame has spread so rapidly and the world of letters now takes so keen an interest in the man and his writings that no apology is necessary for the republication of even his least significant works. I had long desired to bring out a new edition of his earliest book A First Year in Canterbury Settlement, together with the other pieces that he wrote during his residence in New Zealand, and, that wish being now realised, I have added a supplementary group of pieces written during his undergraduate days at Cambridge, so that the present volume forms a tolerably complete record of Butler's literary activity up to the days of Erewhon, the only omission of any importance being that of his pamphlet, published anonymously in 1865, The Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as contained in the four Evangelists critically examined. have not reprinted this, because practically the whole of it was incorporated into The Fair Haven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.