. TITLED- THESE ANTIPODES. A NEW ZEALAND ALBUM 1814-1854.- SIGNED

MADDOCK, Shirley, with photographs by Don Whyte.

Collins. Auckland. 1979. First Edition; pages 317 pages, index; b/w illustrations with 28 pages in colour; hardcover in dust jacket; in archival mylar.

New Zealand historian, Shirley Maddock, has skillfully chosen excerpts from the writings of a variety of visitors to New Zealand, interspersed with her own lively commentary to bring the past to life, includes Abel Tasman, Cook, other well-known explorers, missionaries, whalers, and Pakeha Maori. 317 pages, 61 colour illustrations, plus many b/w Examines the earliest days of European activity in NZ, mainly from 1814 to 1854 using her research to complement material from pioneers, explorers, missionaries, whalers, Maori and navigators such as Cook and Tasman. An ambitious, well-illustrated work. Lovely copy

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