New Zealands burning: The settlers world in the mid 1880s
by Rollo Arnold
Category: Farm life

The book, based on many years of research, is concerned to give a picture of New Zealand settler society in the mid 1880s. It tells the story of the great fires in the summer of 1885/6, and uses the responses to the emergencies to examine the structure and workings of settler society. The author is Emeritus Professor of Education, Victoria University. He also wrote 'The Farthest Promised Land', a social history of New Zealand in the 1870s.