New Zealand Being A Narrative Of Travels and Adventures. Volumes 1 and 2. By J. Polack

New Zealand; being a narrative of travels and adventures during a residence in that country between the years 1831 and 1837. By J. S. Polack. Volume 1 and 2

Volume 1 Hardcover, very good condition, minor shelf/edge wear, map has a minor tear to side does not affect map. Dust jacket scuffed, chipped, edges, and sun faded. Publisher: Capper Press, 1974

Volume 2 Hardcover, very good condition, minor shelf/edge wear, map has a minor tear to side does not affect map. Dust jacket scuffed, chipped, edges, and sun faded, closed repaired tear. Publisher: Capper Press, 1974

 'Forced by isolation and lack of European contact to write, rather than converse with friends, the cosmopolitan Polack directed his abilities into acute observations laced with asides: rubbing noses as a form of greeting was all very well in summer, but an "unpleasant cold coalition" in winter. Polack's New Zealand: A Narrative . . . is one of the most important early New Zealand works, and certainly the most readable account of the glorious free decade before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed and New Zealand settled into the responsibilities of a British colony. Today we can count ourselves lucky to have had such an intelligent and amusing observer as Joel Polack amongst our earliest settlers, with a talent to infect readers with his excitement and enthusiasm for the new country'.

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