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Blanche Baughan's travel writing

Poet Blanche Baughan's essay 'The finest walk in the world', which described the Milford Track, was first published in the London Spectator in 1908, and later in her collection of travel writing, Studies in New Zealand scenery (1916). In this work her knowledge of natural history and eye for beauty merged perfectly.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Blanche Edith Baughan, Studies in New Zealansd scenery. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1916, pp. 8-9 (BK-1070-8)

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Alex Calder, Non-fiction – Settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/43298/blanche-baughans-travel-writing (accessed 12 June 2026).

Story by Alex Calder, published 11 November 2013.