Notes

From the late eighteenth century, Maori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled fro a variety of reasons - curiosity, adventure, commerce, political missions or under duress. Most travellers eventually returned home, bring something of their own ‘new world’ stories with them. These remarkable experiences of voyaging and discovery, presented here in a series of vignettes, also form part of the wider history of Maori and Pakeha encounter.