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Murihiku : a history of the South Island of New Zealand and the islands adjacent and lying to the south, from 1642 to 1835 / by Robert McNab.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge library collection. History.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xiv, 499 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1108039995
  • 9781108039994
Other title:
  • History of the South Island of New Zealand and the islands adjacent and lying to the south, from 1642 to 1835
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.01 23
Contents:
Discovery by Tasman, 1642 -- Cooks explores, 1770 -- Cook's second visit, 1773 -- Cook's third and fourth visits, 1773-1774 -- Cook's last visit, La Perouse and Bligh, 1776 to 1788 -- Vancouver's visit, 1791 -- First sealing gang, 1792 -- Malaspina visits Doubtful Sound, 1793 -- Wreck of the Endeavour, 1795 -- Bass and his monopoly, 1801-1803 -- First sealers arrive, 1803-1805 -- Sealing islands, 1804-1808 -- Stewart Island exploited, 1809-1810 -- Macquarie Island trade, 1810 to 1820 -- Flax trade, 1813-1814 -- Sealing experiences, 1808 to 1820 -- Bellinghausen at Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820 -- Trade of the early twenties -- Far south, 1820 to 1830 -- General Gates, 1819 to 1824 -- Cruise of the Snapper, 1822 to 1823 -- Natives, 1823 -- First coastal description, 1823 -- Later twenties -- Colonization schemes, 1825 to 1827 -- Discovery of the French Pass, 1827 -- Cook Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1833 -- Foveaux Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1835 -- Otago whaling stations, 1831 to 1835 -- Cook Strait, 1834 -- Cook Strait and Chatham Island, 1835.
Summary: "Robert McNab (1864–1917), lawyer, politician, and historian, was one of the most prominent and influential of New Zealand's early intellectuals, renowned for his meticulous gathering of historical resources. The result of nine years of painstaking research, this book was developed from a series of articles on Southland history published in the newspaper Southern Standard in the late 1890s. Murihiku spans the history of European exploration and settlement in the South Island, from the voyages of Abel Tasman and Captain Cook to the arrival of the sealers, whalers, missionaries, and the early settlers in the years leading up the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The book was first published in 1905. After extensive research in archives in Australia, the USA, and Britain, McNab produced a more substantial edition in 1907. This third edition appeared in 1909. McNab was elected fellow of the Royal Geographical society in 1908."--Publisher description.
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Facsim. of: Wellington, N.Z. : Whitcombe & Tombs., 1909.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-451) and index.

Discovery by Tasman, 1642 -- Cooks explores, 1770 -- Cook's second visit, 1773 -- Cook's third and fourth visits, 1773-1774 -- Cook's last visit, La Perouse and Bligh, 1776 to 1788 -- Vancouver's visit, 1791 -- First sealing gang, 1792 -- Malaspina visits Doubtful Sound, 1793 -- Wreck of the Endeavour, 1795 -- Bass and his monopoly, 1801-1803 -- First sealers arrive, 1803-1805 -- Sealing islands, 1804-1808 -- Stewart Island exploited, 1809-1810 -- Macquarie Island trade, 1810 to 1820 -- Flax trade, 1813-1814 -- Sealing experiences, 1808 to 1820 -- Bellinghausen at Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820 -- Trade of the early twenties -- Far south, 1820 to 1830 -- General Gates, 1819 to 1824 -- Cruise of the Snapper, 1822 to 1823 -- Natives, 1823 -- First coastal description, 1823 -- Later twenties -- Colonization schemes, 1825 to 1827 -- Discovery of the French Pass, 1827 -- Cook Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1833 -- Foveaux Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1835 -- Otago whaling stations, 1831 to 1835 -- Cook Strait, 1834 -- Cook Strait and Chatham Island, 1835.

"Robert McNab (1864–1917), lawyer, politician, and historian, was one of the most prominent and influential of New Zealand's early intellectuals, renowned for his meticulous gathering of historical resources. The result of nine years of painstaking research, this book was developed from a series of articles on Southland history published in the newspaper Southern Standard in the late 1890s. Murihiku spans the history of European exploration and settlement in the South Island, from the voyages of Abel Tasman and Captain Cook to the arrival of the sealers, whalers, missionaries, and the early settlers in the years leading up the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The book was first published in 1905. After extensive research in archives in Australia, the USA, and Britain, McNab produced a more substantial edition in 1907. This third edition appeared in 1909. McNab was elected fellow of the Royal Geographical society in 1908."--Publisher description.

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