Extraordinary Travels of Harry Head: Seven times around the world in the 1880s

‘I have been told that my continuous rambling life
is a selfish wasted one & so it may be, but what
sort of life is a clerk’s or a merchant’s, a banker’s
or a timber sawyer’s, a carpenter’s or a tailor’s?
Why don’t some of these scribes write their lives?
As for mine, I could spin it out for many volumes,
for what? That’s just it. What is it all for?’

Harry Head was in turn a gold miner, explorer and mathematician, a pioneer of early flight, a painter, musician and raconteur. He followed his inclinations and disdained the trappings of an encumbered life in the fashion of a prototypical hippy.
The Extraordinary Travels of Harry Head is an intriguing account of one man’s exploration of the world in the 1800s, which included early New Zealand. He circumnavigated the globe seven times, all by sailing ship, by horse or train, but mostly on foot. His life spans the Victorian Age, and he bears witness to the momentous changes that took place during that transformational period of history.

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Small New Zealand Publisher