Early travellers in New Zealand /
edited by Nancy M. Taylor.
- xxx, 594 pages : map ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
William Colenso (1811-99) -- George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78) -- Charles Abraham (1814-1902) -- John Johnson (1794-1848) -- Charles Heaphy (1820-81) -- Thomas Brunner (1821-74) -- John Turnbull Thomson (1821-84) -- Percy Smith (1840-1922) -- A.J. Barrington -- Herbert Meade (1842-68) -- Lieutenant-Colonel St. John (1836-76).
The editor has chosen the journals, diaries and reports of eleven travellers between 1841 and 1873 and has mapped their journeys, scrutinized their personalities and disentangled their writings -- dust jacket.