Pioneers of Martins Bay

"This remarkable personal record by Alice McKenzie (later Mrs Peter Mackenzie) of her pioneering days in a remote south-west corner of New Zealand ... conveyed ... the reality of everyday life for many of the people who immigrated to New Zealand during the 19th century. Alice's story of her family and other settlers in and a round Martins Bay, some 30 kilometres north of Milford Sound, is one of endurance and independence in the face of hardship and isolation ... This third edition ... includes, for the first time, excerpts from Alice's personal diaries and papers ... commented on by her only granddaughter ... It heightens the romance, humour, pathos and tragedy evident in her narrative, and brings new understanding to the many remarkable incidents she describes, including her encounter in 1880 with what she believed may have been one of New Zealand's last bush moa"--Back cover.