"These Antipodes: A New Zealand Album 1814 to 1854". By Shirley Maddock. Published in 1979 by Collins, Auckland. Hard back book with dust cover, in good to very good condition. Some scuffing to cover edges.

Profusely illustrated with diagrams and photographs both black and white and colour.

328 pages of skilfully chosen excerpts from the writings of a variety of visitors to New Zealand, interspersed with her own lively commentary, she brings the past to life in a manner never attempted before by a New Zealand historian. She quotes not only Abel Tasman, Cook and other well-known explorers, but missionaries, whalers, pakeha Maoris, and many other commentators on early New Zealand never published before.