Description
Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel Erewhon, or, Over the range draws on his experiences in Canterbury, NZ, where he lived from 1860 to 1864. It is a satirical, classically utopian novel in which an imaginary land is the setting for a critique of society. The book opens with an account of sheep farming and exploration based on Butler’s time in the Rangitātā River valley (Te Ara Encyclopedia)
