Edited by father-and-daughterauthors Gordon Ell and Sarah Ell, First Encounters: New Zealand 1642–1840 covers nearly 200 years from Abel Tasman in 1642 and Joseph Banks in 1769, to early settlers such as John Logan Campbell in 1840 — in first-person accounts that preserve the English of the times.
The text is well illustrated with two-colour imagery and photos, alongside fact boxes explaining historical language, places and events. Go to our blog to read more about this book and his authors.