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In picture book format.
Contents: Across the oceans wide : Kupe discovers Aotearoa -- The longest walk : Thomas Brunner explores the West Coast -- To the Summit : great mountaineers of New Zealand -- Into the belly of the Earth : great cavers of New Zealand -- Under the wave : the undersea adventures of Kelly Tarlton -- The neverending story.
Summary: About the discovery and exploration of New Zealand by pioneering adventurers like Kupe, Thomas Brunner, Charles Heaphy, Kehu, the Graham Brothers. Freda du Faur, Kieran McKay, Wade Doak and Kelly Tarlton. It covers almost all of New Zealand but particularly the landing sites and place names for Kupe, the majority of the top of the South Island and West coast by Brunner, Aoraki / Mount Cook and other mountains and glaciers, the Bulmer cavern and Nettlebed / Stormy Pot cave, the wreck of the SS Elingamite and Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium. (Publisher)