Adventure In New Zealand, From 1839 To 1844; with some account of the beginning of the British Colonization of the islands. By Edward Jerningham Wakefield. In Two Volumes in Softcovers small rub bottom spine Volume 1 otherwise tight and clean, First Published in 1845 This Wilosn and Horton Fascimile edition C1970, 482 and 546 Pages, Published By Wilson and Horton Auckland. A Very Good Set. 'It is given to few young men, particularly one not yet twenty, to be part of such stupendous undertaking as the birth of a nation. It was fortunate for New Zealand that Edward Jerningham Wakefield, who came from England in the Tory in 1839 as secretary to his uncle, Colonel William Wakefield, had a definite literary bent, for he has left us a most colourful (if sometimes one-sided) account of the beginnings of Wellington and the other New Zealand Company settlements. His official position, inquiring mind, and an urge to see as much of this new land as possible, gave young Wakefield unique opportunities to record impressions which are valuable today. Such prominent contemporary figures as Governor Hobson, Captain Fitzroy, Lieut Willoughby Shortland, the Wakefield brothers, early explorers such as Dr Dieffenbach nd Charles Heaphy, the missionary Octavious Hadfield and the notorious Te Rauparaha and many more, pass through the pages'