David Bateman, 1997. Fading/chipping to dustwrapper.

A full-colour journey through New Zealand's past to it's present in maps, pictues and words. 100 exciting double-page spreads of striking visual impact show the country in a form that is easy to understand.

The New Zealand Historical Atlas is in 5 parts:

Origins: Scientific and traditional Maori explanations of the origins of New Zealand's islands.

Te Ao Maori: The world created by Polynesian settlers in the New Zealand islands and the ways that world changed over time; the deeds of ancestors and the places associated with them.

Colony and Colonised: The revolutionary age, 1840 to 1890, when landscape, economy and society were rapidly transformed; the colonists' world in place, the Maori world displaced.

Dominion: Devolopement and destiny - the confident New Zealand of the first two-thirds o the twentieth century, peace and war, prosperity and depression, the different worlds of town and country.

From Progress to Uncertainty: Modern times, from the 1960s to the early 1990s and what these years have meant to urban and rural dwellers, Maori and Pakeha, young and old, men and women.

The Bateman New Zealand Historical Atlas is an authoritive, wide-ranging, beautiful, exciting and accessible gateway to New Zealand which will foster and stimulate a greater understanding of the country's past and present.