The Welcome of Strangers An Ethnohistory of Southe (by Atholl Anderson)

• First Edition 1998, 249 pages incl. index
• Publisher: University of Otago Press in association with Dunedin City Council
• Format: Hard cover,pale green boards with dust jacket
• Condition: Excellent, minor fading to spine edge
• Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Otago Association settlement of Otago and Southland
• Rare book

Maori in the south of New Zealand had a lifestyle quite distinct from their northern cousins, and different experiences of contact with Europeans.

This book provides an insight into those times, covering the period 1650-1850, and focusing on Maori history from Marlborough to Stewart Island.