Early travellers in New Zealand Nancy M. Taylor [ed].

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959. First Edition.

Very good hardback with plastic protected jacket. Tape marks to end-papers. Price-clipped jacket has been sellotaped to boards. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise pages are very good.

An anthology of primary sources of early European exploration in New Zealand in the 19th century. Includes texts by: William Colenso; George Augustus Selwyn; Charles Abraham; John Johnson; Charles Heaphy; Thomas Brunner; John Turnbull Thomson; Percy Smith; A. J. Barrington; Herbert Meade; Lieutenant-Colonel St. John. "We may, if we are students of what is generally known as the 'expansion' of England, or Europe, or Western capitalist civilization, regards them also as good standard accounts of good standard examples of a process that was going on contemporaneously in a number of wild or semi-wild environments - in Australia and Africa, and mid- and far-west America as well as New Zealand - a process in which the heroes were much the same sort of men everywhere: sometimes truly heroic, but generally unsung; speaking themselves, when they spoke, in unmistakable prose. The prospector, the missionary, the surveyor, are universal figure, not, on the whole, poetic. If, on the other hand, we are New Zealanders, we may here learn something essential about our country." - from the Foreword by J. C. Beaglehole.

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