Frontier The Search For Eldorado 1800-1920 (by Duncan Mackay)

• 1992 first edition. 159 pages incl. index
• Publisher. HarperCollins, NZ
• Softcover. Large. B/w photos. Indexed.
• Condition. Very good, like new

From the beginnings of European discovery, New Zealand held promise as a land of fabulous riches, attracting adventurers in search of quick fortune. They came first as cudgel-wielding sealing gangs and whalers, then as forest axemen and gold-and gum diggers.

This is their story - one of the most colourful episodes of New Zealand's development from the shore whaling stations to the gold towns of Otago and the West Coast.