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Title Great journeys in old New Zealand : travel and exploration in a new land / compiled by Gordon Ell and Sarah Ell
Published Auckland, N.Z. : Bush Press, 1995

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 W'PONDS  993.02 Ell/Gji  AVAILABLE
Description 184 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 26 cm
Contents Overland in 1820 / Samuel Marsden -- A trader in Waipoua / Joel Polack, 1832 -- Walking with the Bishop / Charles Abraham, 1855 -- Into the Waikato /George French Angas, 1844 -- Hunting in the Wyderop /Abel Best, 1840 -- The hot lakes / Ernst Dieffenbach, 1841 -- Through the Urewera / William Colenso, 1841-42 --A teenage adventure / Stephenson Percy Smith, 1858 -- The King's country / Andreas Reischek, 1882 --Beyond the Nelson lakes / Charles Heaphy, 1846 --The longest journey / Thomas Brunner, 1846-8 --The whaling coast / Edward Shortland, 1843 -- The springs of Erewhon / Samuel Butler, 1860 --The New Zealand death / Jakob Lauper, 1863 -- The lost prospectors / Alphonse Barrington, 1863
Notes "... a number of accounts appear in extended and annotated versions in ... Early travellers in New Zealand, edited by Nancy M. Taylor ... published by Oxford University Press in 1959, along with journeys of several other travellers"--P. 184
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-184)
SUBJECT New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
New Zealand -- History -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87006595 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Author Ell, Gordon.
Ell, Sarah.
ISBN 0908608349 (paperback)