In These Antipodes, Shirley Maddock has skilfully chosen excerpts from the writings of a variety of visitors to New Zealand, interspersed with her own lively commentary. She brings the past to life in a manner never attempted before by a New Zealand historian. She quotes not only Abel Tasman, James Cook, and the other well-known explorers, but missionaries, whalers, Pakeha Maoris, and many other commentators on early New Zealand never published before. Illustrated throughout...