Personal perspectives : diaries from the Turnbull Library / Alexander Turnbull Library.
"To start there is Wairarapa labourer James Cox, whose diaries record half a lifetime's struggle to make a living. His diary-keeping became a way for him to cope with continual disappointment. In the extract here, he recounts his experiences as a swagman in 1892. Very different is the e...
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| Language: | English |
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Alexander Turnbull Library,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Archived copy available at the National Library of New Zealand http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/logs-to-blogs-exhibition-to-ebook http://natlib.govt.nz/files/blog/PersonalPerspectives.epub |
| Summary: | "To start there is Wairarapa labourer James Cox, whose diaries record half a lifetime's struggle to make a living. His diary-keeping became a way for him to cope with continual disappointment. In the extract here, he recounts his experiences as a swagman in 1892. Very different is the exuberant diary of sixteen-year-old, newly-married, Eleanor Petre, all about upper class life in the new settlement of Wellington. Alice McKenzie was almost the same age as Petre when she began her diary in 1888 but the near-subsistence dawn-to-dusk working life she describes in isolated Martins Bay could not be more different. For her a diary was a valued companion, as well as a way to practise her new-found literacy. The other three diarists featured here were all conscious that they were part of exciting times. Carpenter Harry McNeish began his diary when he set off on the ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition with Ernest Shackleton in 1914. No other diary gives quite such a full and level-headed account of what happened. Athlete Jack Lovelock kept a prosaic training log of his running but also a much more reflective and detailed journal. Here we have selected his intense description of the world record mile in 1933. One hundred years earlier British Navy employee Thomas Laslett found himself searching for kauri spars on the New Zealand coast, and began a detailed and lively journal of his experiences"--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in EPUB. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. "The extracts were originally selected to accompany the exhibition, Logs to Blogs: Diaries from the Turnbull Library." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |