Life in a Young Colony - Selections From Early New Zealand Writing

Whitcoulls Publishers, Christchurch, 1981. In tidy condition with DW.
The extracts in this book begin in 1839 and are often previously unknown or difficult to trace. They may describe an important historic event such as the purchase of Wellington or the arrival in Lyttelton of the first four ships, or they can tell amusingly of some aspect of colonial life. A moving and dramatic account of the Tarawera eruption is included as is a Maori view of the notorious Wairau Massacre.