Travels in New Zealand - With a Map of the Country

This is the 1973 Capper Facsimile Reprint. Light foxing at page edges, previous owner's name in pen at top of front endpaper, no dustjacket.

In the course of his travelogue, Marjoribanks graphically describes the Boyd and Wairau massacres, and Maori cannibalism, specifying dislike of pakeha steaks and giving the recipe for the ideal `dish.' Hocken described it thus: a `chatty book, giving amusing glimpses of everyday life.' Marjoribanks, a Scottish settler and entertaining writer, arrived in New Zealand in the Bengal Merchant in 1840. The first edition of his `Travels' was published in 1847.