Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand by Giselle Byrnes

Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand

Giselle Byrnes

176 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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With theodolites and Maori guides, nineteenth-century land surveyors travelled over New Zealand renaming peaks and rivers, cutting survey lines through bush and across Maori cultivations. The surveyors saw themselves as taming the wilderness, trav...

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