Notes

What did visiting authors such as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling really think of New Zealand and its people? This book also reveals how New Zealand has been portrayed by those who never came here but wrote about it anyway. Notes from private diaries, journals, newspaper articles, and published works of George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, and Anthony Trollope paint a portrait of a nation both comic and tragic, cruel and kind, but almost always affectionate.