Journal of a ten months' residence in New Zealand (1820 / by Richard A. Cruise ; edited by A.G. Bagnall.

By:

Cruise, Richard A. (Richard Alexander), 1784?-1832 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Bagnall, A. G. (Austin Graham), 1912-1986 [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Christchurch, N.Z. : Pegasus Press, 1957Description: 235 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : portrait ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Other title:

Journal of a ten months' residence in New Zealand (eighteen twenty
Journal of a 10 months' residence in New Zealand (1820
Cruise's journal [Cover title]

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

993.01

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	993.01 CRU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A058996B
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	993.01 CRU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A067323B

Captain Cruise was in charge of the military detachment on H.M.S. Dromedary which visited New Zealand in 1820 to load kauri spars. Cruise visited the Bay of Islands, Whangaroa, Hokianga, the Waitemata and the Thames and gives a unique account of the country and of Māori society in the inter-tribal war period. Cf. Bagnall.

An army captain's observations of the country and Maori society during a visit to North Auckland, the Waitemata and Thames in 1820.

"First published in 1823 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster-Row, London. Republished 1957 in an edition of 650 copies" -- T.p. verso.