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The King Country, or, Explorations in new Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés)
James Henry Kerry-Nicholls (Autor)
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The King Country, or, Explorations in new Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés) - James Henry Kerry-Nicholls
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Reseña del libro "The King Country, or, Explorations in new Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania) (en Inglés)"
Originally published in 1884, this work by the relatively unknown 'gentleman explorer' James Henry Kerry-Nicholls (d. 1888) focuses on nineteenth-century New Zealand. It recounts the journey into what he describes as terra incognita, the area known as the King Country, almost exclusively Maori and little explored by Europeans due to political difficulties and Maori hostility. Travelling with only three horses and what he could carry on them, and accompanied by an interpreter, he endeavoured to cover and accurately record details of an area totalling 10,000 square miles; owing to good contacts, he was even able to meet Maori King Tawhiao. Writing in what now seems an imperialist style, he recounts a history of Maori–European relations, notes potential sites for European settlement, includes geographical surveys and descriptions of the landscapes, and supplies a map which gives the 'most complete chart of the interior of the North Island as yet published'.
