More links and websites
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Scenery preservation in New Zealand
This nzhistory.net.nz exhibition commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Scenery Preservation Act of 1903.
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South Seas: voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific (1760–1800)
This very rich site includes the complete texts of the journals of those on James Cook’s first voyage of discovery.
More suggestions and sources
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McNaughton, Trudie, ed. Countless signs: the New Zealand landscape in literature – an anthology. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.
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Pound, Francis. Frames on the land: early landscape painting in New Zealand. Auckland: Collins, 1983.
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Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific. 2nd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Shepard, Paul. English reaction to the New Zealand landscape before 1850. Wellington: Dept. of Geography, Victoria University, 1969.
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Temple, Philip, ed. Lake, mountain, tree: an anthology of writing on New Zealand nature & landscape. Auckland: Godwit, 1998.
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Wevers, Lydia. Country of writing: travel writing and New Zealand, 1809–1900. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.