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Samuel Butler, born in England, lived in
Canterbury, New Zealand, from 1860 to 1864. He
became a notable explorer and successful sheep farmer
in a part of the Southern Alps now renowned for its
use in the Lord of the Rings. His satiric fiction Erewhon
and his autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh are
classics of literature in English, included in many lists
of great books.
Samuel Butler — radical thinker, explorer, satirist,
wrote Erewhon, the first great New Zealand book.
Drawing on research and on Butler’s own words,
Roger Robinson reconstructs the missing story of
Butler’s time in New Zealand; the formative years
that shaped his mind, his art, and his vision of the
modern world.
In this bold ‘co-authored autobiography’, Butler
speaks again in his own vivid, witty and subversive
voice. We see him as settler and sheep-farmer,
mountaineer and journalist, philosopher and lover,
wrestling with Darwin’s ideas, with faith and doubt,
and with the haunting beauty of South Canterbury.
Haunted by Erewhon restores Butler to his rightful
place as a New Zealand writer of global importance.
It is an inventive, passionate work of scholarship
and imagination — the untold story of how a young
emigrant in the 1860s created one of the world’s
most visionary books.
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