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Explorers, whalers & tattooed sailors : adventurous tales from early New Zealand / edited by Gordon Ell and Sarah Ell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House New Zealand, 2008Description: 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869790235
  • 9781869790233
Other title:
  • Explorers, whalers and tattooed sailors
Uniform titles:
  • Adventurous times in old New Zealand.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.01 22
Contents:
Introduction : Adventurous times -- First contacts. Murderer's Bay : Abel Tasman 1642. Landfall : Joseph Banks 1769. The murder of Marion : Ambroise du Clesmeur 1772. Settlement at Dusky Sound : Robert Murry 1795. The first Maori to visit England : John Savage 1805 -- Missionaries and traders. Bluff Harbour flax : Robert Williams 1813. The first Christmas : Samuel Marsden 1814. Two fugitives : J.L. Nicholas 1814. The spar trade : Richard A. Cruise 1820. Envoy of peace : Henry Williams 1828. Shipwrecked on the Aldermen : W.R. Wade 1835 -- Sealers and whalers. Visit to the Sealing Island : John Marmon 1807. Attack by night : John Boultbee 1826. Mutiny averted : Captain W.B. Rhodes 1836. The whalers of Te-awa-iti : Edward Jerningham Wakefield 1839 -- Life among Maori. The tattooed sailor : John Rutherford 1810s. The burning of the Boyd : J.L. Nicholas 1814. Maori raid : Augustus Earle 1827. The arrival of 'doubtful friends' : F.E. Maning 1830s. 'How I got tabooed' : F.E. Maning 1830s. A brief liaison : Edward Markham 1834 -- Strange journeys. Journey cross-country : Augustus Earle 1827. In the footsteps of Cook : Joel Polack 1835. Ascent of Egmont : Ernst Dieffenbach 1839. 'Through the heart of the island' : Henry Williams 1839. Climbing a sacred mountain : J.C. Bidwell 1839. A golden dream : John Logan Campbell 1840.
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"First published by The Bush Press in 1994 as Adventurous Times in Old New Zealand"--T.p. verso.

"The stories in this book have been garnered from personal accounts by the first Europeans to visit or settle in New Zealand"--[P.7].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302).

Introduction : Adventurous times -- First contacts. Murderer's Bay : Abel Tasman 1642. Landfall : Joseph Banks 1769. The murder of Marion : Ambroise du Clesmeur 1772. Settlement at Dusky Sound : Robert Murry 1795. The first Maori to visit England : John Savage 1805 -- Missionaries and traders. Bluff Harbour flax : Robert Williams 1813. The first Christmas : Samuel Marsden 1814. Two fugitives : J.L. Nicholas 1814. The spar trade : Richard A. Cruise 1820. Envoy of peace : Henry Williams 1828. Shipwrecked on the Aldermen : W.R. Wade 1835 -- Sealers and whalers. Visit to the Sealing Island : John Marmon 1807. Attack by night : John Boultbee 1826. Mutiny averted : Captain W.B. Rhodes 1836. The whalers of Te-awa-iti : Edward Jerningham Wakefield 1839 -- Life among Maori. The tattooed sailor : John Rutherford 1810s. The burning of the Boyd : J.L. Nicholas 1814. Maori raid : Augustus Earle 1827. The arrival of 'doubtful friends' : F.E. Maning 1830s. 'How I got tabooed' : F.E. Maning 1830s. A brief liaison : Edward Markham 1834 -- Strange journeys. Journey cross-country : Augustus Earle 1827. In the footsteps of Cook : Joel Polack 1835. Ascent of Egmont : Ernst Dieffenbach 1839. 'Through the heart of the island' : Henry Williams 1839. Climbing a sacred mountain : J.C. Bidwell 1839. A golden dream : John Logan Campbell 1840.

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