At once notorious and visionary, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his brothers played a key but controversial role in the early British settlement of New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Once famed as New Zealand's 'Founding Fathers', they have since ...

French explorer and naval officer Jean-François de la Pérouse (1741-88) was, after James Cook, the greatest explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. In 1785, La Pérouse was commissioned by Louis XVI to head an expedition into the ...

New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of ...

Illustrated with over 150 historical photographs, paintings and maps, Presenting New Zealand is a visually sumptuous and informative account of how the country has developed into the independent nation that the rest of the world recognises today ...

Continuing in the success of the popular AA series, Impressions of New Zealand is a beautiful picture book to this wonderful country. With text written by local experts who know the area and carefully chosen images of the highest quality, the ...

The South Pacific is a huge expanse of ocean that encompasses more than 20,000 islands - including the islands of New Zealand. Illustrated history of the South Pacific is an excellent introduction to the story of the sea-faring people of this ...