Notes

Illustrations;Editor Cherry A Hankin; Selections from early N.Z writing;A collecton of extracts from 19th Century N.Z. prose writing giving history;in the words of the settlers themselves. From the difficulties of land;purchase, the contribution of women, to the spread of christianity.;From the humourous side of colonial society to the back breaking in of;land. The book begins in 1839 with the New Zealand Company embarking on;colonisation.