Description

Otago Centennial Historical Publ., 1949 - Caper Press Reprint, 1975. Hardcover, 829. pp. In acceptable+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Reddish Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight. A few pages have light pencil underlining and margin notes. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Fold-out map. [From Preface] the work is in four phases: 'the pre-1848 era which goes back to the Maori occupation of the land of Murihiku, sealing and whaling. . . the Scottish background, wherein is found the genesis of the Otago scheme . . . the provincial era, deals with the efforts of a few hundred Scottish settlers to conquer their environment and to give practical effect to those ideals which had been incorporated in the Articles of Settlement ... and the beginning of the modern era with Otago bestowing upon New Zealand as a whole those ideas of land settlement, education and the like, which were a part of the provincial heritage of the south.