Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand

Gordon Ell (ed.); Sarah Ell (ed.)

Secondhand. This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit this country tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure. Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, ...