Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Adrift in New Zealand
IN introducing this little volume on New Zealand I wish it to be clearly understood that as a practical guide to that country it is useless, as a Standard Geography for the Board Schools it is worse than useless and I frankly admit that students of natural philosophy, geology, botany, or archaeology will not be interested in it. Missionaries will find no encouragement in it to throw up their work in this country and go to civilise the Maoris whilst Little Englanders will, I regret to say, fly from it like rats from a wire-haired terrier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
