Murihiku
A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835

The third, 1909 edition of McNab's influential 1905 history of European contact with New Zealand's South Island before 1840.

Robert McNab (Author)

9781108039994, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 November 2011

550 pages, 7 b/w illus. 4 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg

Robert McNab (1864–1917), lawyer, politician, and historian, was one of the most prominent and influential of New Zealand's early intellectuals, renowned for his meticulous gathering of historical resources. The result of nine years of painstaking research, this book was developed from a series of articles on Southland history published in the newspaper Southern Standard in the late 1890s. Murihiku spans the history of European exploration and settlement in the South Island, from the voyages of Abel Tasman and Captain Cook to the arrival of the sealers, whalers, missionaries, and the early settlers in the years leading up the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The book was first published in 1905. After extensive research in archives in Australia, the USA, and Britain, McNab produced a more substantial edition in 1907. This third edition appeared in 1909. McNab was elected fellow of the Royal Geographical society in 1908.

Preface
1. Discovery by Tasman, 1642
2. Cook explores, 1770
3. Cook's second visit, 1773
4. Cook's third and fourth visits, 1773–4
5. Cook's last visit, La Perouse and Bligh, 1776 to 1788
6. Vancouver's visit, 1791
7. First sealing gang, 1792
8. Malaspina visits Doubtful Sound, 1793
9. Wreck of the Endeavour, 1795
10. Bass and his monopoly, 1801 to 1803
11. First sealers arrive, 1803 to 1805
12. The Sealing Islands, 1804 to 1808
13. Stewart Island exploited, 1809–10
14. Marquarie Island trade, 1810 to 1820
15. The flax trade, 1813–14
16. Sailing experiences, 1808 to 1820
17. Bellingshausen at Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820
18. Trade of the early twenties
19. The far south, 1820 to 1830
20. The General Gates, 1819 to 1824
21. Cruise of the Snapper, 1822 to 1823
22. The natives, 1823
23. First coastal description, 1823
24. The later twenties
25. Colonization schemes, 1825 to 1827
26. Discovery of the French Pass, 1827
27. Cook Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1833
28. Foveaux Strait, 1830 to 1835
29. Otago Whaling Station, 1831 to 1835
30. Cook Strait, 1834
31. Cook Strait and Chatham Island, 1835
Index.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]