Explorers, whalers & tattooed sailors
Subtitle: adventurous tales from early New Zealand
By: edited by Gordon Ell and Sarah Ell.
Contributors: Ell, Gordon.; Ell, Sarah.
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781869790233
Subjects: Pioneers -- New Zealand -- Diaries; New Zealand -- Biography; New Zealand -- History -- To 1840; New Zealand -- Discovery and exploration; New Zealand -- Social life and customs
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Other titles: Explorers, whalers, and tattooed sailors
Work titles: Adventurous times in old New Zealand.
Description: Early New Zealand was a magnet for explorers, adventurers and entrepreneurs - those who wanted to go beyond the edge of the civilised world and find out what it had to offer. These eye-witness accounts are written by the first Europeans to come to New Zealand: from Abel Tasman in 1642 and naturalist Joseph Banks in 1769 to the sealers and whalers, missionaries, traders, artists, scientists and adventurers of the early 1800s. They include the stories of New Zealand's first European settlement, the first Māori to visit England, living as an outsider in a Māori world, and of strange journeys through an unmapped and often dangerous land.
Notes: Previously published as: Adventurous times in old New Zealand.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-302).