Kings Landing, Country Life in Early Canada, 1979, by Wayne
Barrett, hardcover with dust jacket, published by Oxford
University Press. Kings Landing is a Pioneer Village in present-
day New Brunswick, Canada. From the dust jacket ----- On a
peaceful bank of the Saint John River is a village living in the
eighteen hundreds. Here, at Kings Landing Historical Settlement,
the sights and sounds, the pleasures and labours, the small
activities of daily life, are those of a century and more ago.
Here our modern world is unimagined. To see Kings Landing
brought to life is to know what inspired the poetic imagery of
the Victorians. No brief description can convey the beautiful
richness and variety of human detail in this book, which
recreates Victorian life through all the seasons and from
childhood to old age. All the photographs in this book were
specially commissioned. They give a representation of the
Settlement and form an album of central New Brunswick in the
nineteenth century. The introduction and the extensive