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The King Country, or, Explorations in New Zealand - A Narrative of 600 miles of Travel through Maoriland (Paperback)
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The King Country, or, Explorations in New Zealand - A Narrative of 600 miles of Travel through Maoriland (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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Originally published in 1884, this work by the relatively unknown
'gentleman explorer' James Henry Kerry-Nicholls (d. 1888) focuses
on nineteenth-century New Zealand. It recounts the journey into
what he describes as terra incognita, the area known as the King
Country, almost exclusively Maori and little explored by Europeans
due to political difficulties and Maori hostility. Travelling with
only three horses and what he could carry on them, and accompanied
by an interpreter, he endeavoured to cover and accurately record
details of an area totalling 10,000 square miles; owing to good
contacts, he was even able to meet Maori King Tawhiao. Writing in
what now seems an imperialist style, he recounts a history of
Maori-European relations, notes potential sites for European
settlement, includes geographical surveys and descriptions of the
landscapes, and supplies a map which gives the 'most complete chart
of the interior of the North Island as yet published'.
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