Pathfinders in New Zealand. By Garry Hogg

Hardcover, very good condition, minor shelf wear to covers, minor marks, and minor foxing spots to front end. Dust jacket priceclipped, small scuff mark to front cover, scuffed edges, marked on back cover. Publisher: Robert Hale Limited 1963 medium purple boards with silver lettering on spine. B&w plates, maps.

A selection of individual achievements spanning the two hundred years between Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in the mid-seventeenth century and Barrington's marathon trek in search of gold in the mid-nineteenth century. A final chapter deals with 'Mr Explorer Douglas', whose astonishing exploits belong to a somewhat later period, and who died less than fifty years ago. These (and others which might also have been included, had there been space) stand out as milestones along a route of splendid achievement which has transformed two remote islands into the proud Dominion they constitute today." Chapters include: Hore-Ta-Te-Taniwha Meets James Cook; Massacre in Treachery Bay; A Sermon in Treachery Bay; The Unpredicatable Maori; Dieffenbach's Ascent of Mt Egmont; Brunner and 'The Great Journey'; Barrington Looks for Gold.

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