Read the diverse accounts of more than 40 ethnic groups that have brought their culture and customs across the world. Learn about the challenges of starting a new life in a strange land. The thousands of English and Scottish settlers, the Chinese goldminers in Otago, Wellington's Italian fishing families, the growing Pacific Island community in Auckland, the more recent Africans, Filipinos, Koreans and other arrivals - New Zealand's immigrants and their unique contributions are described in this wide-ranging, colourful volume.