Ex-libris bookplate, Frank G. Glen. 14mm circular green sticker on front endpaper. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 227, [1 (blank)] pages + 16 plates + 1 in-text map + maps on endpapers. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Biography. ""Finding the Nelson of 1843 too civilised, and the heathen already bespoken, he moved south, to Ruapuke, a low-slung scrap of an island in Foveaux Strait, practically streamless and harbourless and with little protection from the storms that sweep up from the Antarctic. He was to remain there for over forty years. He found his life's work among the waning Maori population of the Strait settlements, at first swollen by refugees from Te Rauparaha."" - from dust-jacket blurb.