Murihiku and The Southern Islands - A History of the West Coast Sounds, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, The Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie Islands, from 1770 to 1829

First published in 1907 by William Smith, this facsimile published by William & Horton.
Foxing to cover and throughout. Spine faded.

A mine of information on early happenings in the South Island of New Zealand, from the arrival of the first European seal hunters in the late 1790s up to 1835, when the explorers from the various nations had come and gone, MURIHIKU is a must for the historically-minded reader.