I have named it the Bay of Islands--
By: Jack Lee.
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: New Zealand -- History.; Islands, Bay of (N.Z.) -- History.
Description: "On 7 December 1769 Lieutenant James Cook sailed away from this bay, having duly recorded its newly acquired name on the chart he had made during the preceding week ... Within 75 years, the Bay of Islands was to become a focal point in the Pacific for trade and industry, as well as for every sort of commercial chicanery, land-jobbing and general lawlessness. Subject to a curious experiment in civil government and intensive missionary enterprise, within a short time these events would lead to open war, eventually eroding and destroying the ancient pattern of life of the proud people Cook had originally found there"--Introduction.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 309-313.
Includes index.