Research Catalog

Title

The Penguin eyewitness history of New Zealand : dramatic first-hand accounts from New Zealand's history / edited by Bob Brockie.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : New York : Penguin Books, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brockie, Bob.

Description

293 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

I was there!

Subjects

• Miscellanea
• History
• Anecdotes
• Sources
• New Zealand > Social life and customs > Sources
• New Zealand > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• History.
• Miscellanea.
• Sources.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: I was there! 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

New Zealand espied, 1642 / Abel Tasman -- Violence at Murderers Bay, 1642 / Abel Tasman -- First European to set foot on New Zealand, 1769 / Captain James Cook -- 'Dr Solander and myself ... landed without much difficulty', 1769 / Joseph Banks -- Frenchmen fraternising with the savages in the Bay of Islands, 1772 / Julien Crozet -- Modern man meets ancient man and his daughters, 1773 / Captain James Cook -- Cook's men clear bush at Dusky Sound, 1773 / George Forster -- 'I don't like to be shot at like a bird', 1795 / First Officer John Murry -- First cattle and horses landed at Bay of Islands, 1814 / John Nicholas -- First Christian service at Bay of Islands, 1814 / Rev. Samuel Marsden -- Escaped convicts recaptured, Bay of Islands, 1814 / John Nicholas -- Utu at Stewart Island, 1827 / John Boultbee -- Massacre at Akaroa, 1830 / Ihaia Pouhawaiki -- The spirit calls, 1830s / Frederick Edward Maning -- 'I do not know that I ever cried in parting from a girl before', 1834 / Edward Markham -- Visiting Waimate, 1835 / Charles Darwin -- Harpooning whales off Banks Peninsula, 1838 / Surgeon Felix Maynard -- A fair exchange in Lyttelton Harbour, 1838 / Surgeon Felix Maynard -- Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, 1840 / William Colenso -- Broken-hearted at Cloudy Bay, about 1840 / Te Uatorikiriki -- Auckland's first horse race, 1842 / Ensign Best -- Negotiating the Buller Gorge, 1847 / Thomas Brunner -- First operation under general anaesthetic in Wellington, 1847 / Port Nicholson Spectator reporter -- Queen's Birthday Ball aboard the Meander, 1850 / Charlotte Godley -- A drowning in Lyttelton Harbour, 1851 / Charlotte Godley -- Frolicking naked in the snow, 1851 / William Colenso -- Cook's visit recalled, 1852 / Chief Te Taniwha -- Mackenzie's dog in court, 1855 / Pioneer reporter -- German hospitality near Motueka, 1859 / Julius van Haast -- Carbine and revolver attack south of Auckland, 1863 / Captain William Jackson -- The lonely shepherd, 1864 / Robert Palmer -- Waikato Battle, 1864 / Brigadier-General Carey -- Lament for the dispossessed, 1860s / Rangiamoa -- 'My children has had to go bare futed', 1865 / Jane Oates -- 'I was treated in a cold, cruel and unkind manner'. 1865 / Augusta McNeill -- Parson calls on Kaniere gold miners, 1866 / Archdeacon Henry Harper -- The Stratford Fire Storm, 1868 / Edward Gilshnan -- Visiting the Karori Lunatic Asylum, 1871 / Dr France -- Coaching through Otago, 1872 / Anthony Trollope -- Lifeboat adrift off South Africa, 1874 / Second mate Henry McDonald -- Collecting potatoes near Whakarewarewa, 1870s / Makeriti -- Aftermath of the s.s. Tararua sinking, 1881 / J. Rennie -- 'Cry for me', 1882 / Hiroki -- 'My time is very full', 1884 / Anne Richmond -- Sister Joseph given her instructions, 1885 / Father Soulas -- Trapped under Tarawera ash, 1886 / Amelia Haszard -- Pelican up the Wanganui River, 1889 / S.H. Drew -- Work in the bakehouse, 1890 / 'Mr. X' -- No work in Hawke's Bay, 1893 / James Cox -- 'At home' : Government House, 1893 / New Zealand graphic and Ladies Journal Reporter -- Backcountry snow in Canterbury, 1895 / Arthur Hope -- Minnie Dean hanged at Invercargill, 1895 / Southland times reporter -- The Brunnerton Mine Disaster, 1896 / Christchurch press reporters -- Vindicating public purity, 1898 / Henry George Ell -- Off to the war, 1899 / Evening post reporters -- Giving the Boers Jip, 1900 / Trooper Herbert H. Gawith -- Welcoming the new launch at Uawa (Tolaga Bay), 1901 / Eru Monita -- The mail must get through, 1901 / Herbert Bird -- Escaping Burnham Industrial School, about 1905 / John A. Lee -- Richard Seddon welcomes the All Blacks home, 1906 / New Zealand herald reporter -- Annual school picnic, about 1906 / Alex W. Hepburn -- Jumping the baby up and down at Waipunga, 1907 / Katherine Mansfield -- Winning the Nobel Prize, 1908 / Ernest Rutherford -- Advice to mothers, 1909 / F. Truby King -- Drunks fighting like dogs at Tolaga Bay, 1914 / Florence Harsant -- Landing at Gallipoli, 1915 / Dr Te Rangi Hiroa -- Burying the dead at Gallipoli, 1915 / Lieutenant Colonial [sic] P.C. Fenwick -- Doctoring to the troops at Gallipoli, 1915 / Dr Te Rangi Hiroa -- 'Hope some work will come my way soon', 1915 / James Cox -- The fighting at Passchendale, 1917 / Brigadier-Genral Gernard Freyberg -- No. 1 field punishment, 1918 / Archibald Baxter -- 'I respectfully beg to appeal', 1918 / Captain Alfred Jonas -- War's end and influenza strikes, 1918 / Dr Doris Gordon -- The sporting life, 1919 / Herbert Watson -- Growing up in Lyall Bay, 1920 / Barbara Chorlton -- The Prince of Wales welcomed to Dunedin, 1920 / Otago daily times reporter -- Tea with the Mayor of Wanganui, 1920 / D'Arcy Cresswell -- Arriving in New Zealand, 1921 / Walter Brockie -- Juvenile deliquency in Reefton, early 1920s / Redmond Phillips -- The Bombay Football Club, 1922 / William Massey -- Fighting the Black Marlin off the Bay of Islands, 1920s / Zane Grey -- School holidays up country, 1928 / Barbara Chorlton -- First Trans-Tasman flight, 1928 / Squadron Leader Kindsford Smith -- Escaping the Murchison earthquake, 1929 / Vita Harney -- Ahuriri Lagoon turns to dry land, 1931 / Ruth Park -- Napier Morturary after the Big Quake, 1931 / New Zealand Press Association reporter -- The unemployed riot in Queen Street, 1932 / C.G. Scrimgeour -- The depression hits Donegal flat, early 1930s / Ellen Donegal -- Labour victory, 1935 / Michael Joseph Savage -- The Gull lands at Auckland Airport, 1936 / Jean Batten -- Parliamentary proceedings, 1937 / John A. Lee -- 'Life is good if you've got the guts', 1938 / Archie Hull -- Cabinet hears Britain declare war on Germany, 1939 / Bernard Ashwin -- HMNZS Achilles in action off the River Plate, 1939 / Jack S. Harker -- Farewelling the troops, 1940 / Ruth Park -- Hungarian refugee's first job in New Zealand, 1940 / George Haydn -- Retreat from Greece and Crete, 1941 / John Watson -- 'It is my intention to come out on Thursday', 1941 / Harold Fuller Cooke -- Bombardment at El Alamein, 1942 / Lieutenant Colonel H. Murray Reid -- Mutiny at POW Camp, 1943 / Second Lieutenant Keith Robertson -- Battle for the Mareth Line, 1943 / General Freyberg -- Shot down in the Pacific, 1943 / Warrant Officer George Luoni -- 'Move or nod your head if you can hear us', 1944 / Nursing Sister Gay Trevithick -- General Kippenberger loses his feet at Cassino, 1944 / Frank Massey -- Kiwi Keith's high-flying kites, about 1947 / Roger Holyoake -- Hotel service, 1947 / Alistair Mcintosh -- Ballantyne's fire, 1947 / Margueretta Nicholls, Nancy Nash -- Waterfront Dispute, 1951 / Colin Clark -- Undreamt-of success, 1951 / Sidney Holland -- The Hulk does Stillwater, 1951 / George Fraser -- Knocking off Mount Everest, 1953 / Edmund Hillary -- Tangiwai disaster, 1953 / Cyril Ellis -- The Queen visits Stratford, 1954 / Jill King -- Moidering mother, 1954 / Pauline Parker -- First Holy Communion, 1958 / Therese O'Connell -- The world mile record, 1962 / Peter Snell -- Meeting the right people in Heretaunga, early 1960s / Robyn Du Chateau -- Vietnam teach-in, 1965 / Professor Keith Sinclair -- Visiting Rio and Berlin, 1967 / Robert Muldoon -- Saved from the sinking Wahine, 1968 / Ada Woolf -- Anti-Vietnam [War] demos in Auckland, 1968 / Tim Shadbolt -- Qui Nhon Hospital, 1969 / Dr Peter Eccles Smith -- Statement to policy, 1970 / Arthur Allan Thomas -- Christmas Day in Paremoremo, 1970 / Carl Frederick Rosel -- Norman Kirk's days and nights, 1974 / Margaret Hayward -- Sunday night at the Peter Pan Cabaret, 1974 / Bob Jones -- Milan Brych unmasked, 1974 / Kevin Ryan -- Maori Land March, 1975 / Donna Awatere Huata -- Wellington mayoral campaign launched, 1977 / Carmen -- Data entry error, 1978 [Flight 901 to Mount Erebus, 1979] / Brian Hewitt -- Mr Asia rumbled, 1978-79 / Pat Booth -- New Year's Eve party, 1980 / Tom Scott -- Flying to Wellington, 1981 / John Banks -- Protesting the Springbok Tour, 1981 / Sonja Davies -- Confronting the anti-apartheid protestors, 1981 / Ross Meurant -- Turning point, 1985 / Zita Edmunds -- The Oxford debate, 1985 / David Lange -- The Edgecumbe Earthquake, 1987 / Bronwyn Joyce -- Sharemarket crash, 1987 / Oily Newland -- The Rose-Nol︠le makes land, 1990 / John Glennie -- Dialling 111, Aramoana, 1990 / Darren Gibbs -- The America's Cup comes to Auckland, 1995 / Suzanne McFadden -- Falling into Cave Creek, 1995 / Stacy Mitchell -- Baiting the French at Mururoa Atoll, 1995 / Alice Richard Leney -- The general election, 1996 / David Armstrong -- Auckland power crisis, 1998 / Maryanne Gardiner and Alan Mummery -- The Scott Wilson Trial, 1999 / Frank Haden -- McLean's Millennial Hogmanay, 1999-2000 / Dinah Priestley -- !*!@#$ 2001 [New York 11 September 2001] / Mikhaila Nola.

ISBN

0143018256 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003428240

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library