This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Cassell and Company, Limited in London, Paris & Melbourne, 1895.

This pioneering work examines the vast literature of travel that brought New Zealand into the newsstands, libraries and smoking rooms of nineteenth-century Europe and helped place it on the literary map while connecting the new colony to the interests of empire. Wevers's stimulating discussion also provides an oblique history of the young nation.