Story: Perceptions of the landscape

More links and websites

• Scenery preservation in New Zealand

  This NZ History website article commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Scenery Preservation Act of 1903.

• 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

• McNaughton, Trudie, ed. Countless signs: the
  New Zealand landscape in literature – an
  anthology. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.
• Pound, Francis. Frames on the land: early
  landscape painting in New Zealand. Auckland:
  Collins, 1983.
• Smith, Bernard. European vision and the
  South Pacific. 2nd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford
  University Press, 1989.
• Shepard, Paul. English reaction to the New
  Zealand landscape before 1850. Wellington:
  Dept. of Geography, Victoria University, 1969.
• Temple, Philip, ed. Lake, mountain, tree: an
  anthology of writing on New Zealand nature &
  landscape. Auckland: Godwit, 1998.
• Wevers, Lydia. Country of writing: travel
  writing and New Zealand, 1809–1900. Auckland:
  Auckland University Press, 2002.