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Shirley Maddock
216 p., xvi p. of plates
ill. (some col.), facsims., ports
Table of contents: Te Maori o hehera = Maori in former times -- Abel Tasman in New Zealand -- James Cook and his French contemporaries -- Captains and castaways -- On the path to Waitangi -- After Waitangi : towards an elected government -- Horizons further south -- Variable skies -- The land wars -- Moving on -- Further down the road -- People of the land -- Hard work -- Pleasures and pastimes -- 'God's own country' -- Towards a new dominion -- The price of nationhood -- Counting the cost -- In the doldrums -- To the wars returning -- Epilogue : forty years on