Banks Peninsula: Cradle of Canterbury by Gordon Ogilvie.

Banks Peninsula: Cradle of Canterbury by Gordon Ogilvie.

Publisher: GP Books, Christchurch, 1990. first edition. 283 pages with photos.

Near new hardback with jacket. Binding firm, a little compression, to spine ends, minor marks. Jacket has minor shelf-wear with slight chipping to top of spine.

The first systematic and comprehensive record of the development of Banks Peninsula. It is a people-centred view of the peninsula's history, covering several waves of Maori occupation, the grim days of the Ngai Tahu civil war and Te Rauparaha's visitations. Early European times are also well accounted for in the the author's depiction of the whalers, bush fellas, boatbuilders, pioneer dairy farmers and other settlers - and the ships' deserters - who gave Banks Peninsula a substantial population well before the arrival of the first Canterbury Association Immigrants in late 1850. Here too are the stories of the milling era, the golden days of the cocksfoot bonanza, sheep and cattle farming, right through to the present boom in deer, goats, handicrafts and tourism.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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