A A Draught of the South Land - Mapping New Zealand from Tasman to Cook

The story of how the map of New Zealand emergedis a fascinating one. The first full map of the islands was published in Londonin 1773, which might seem the natural starting point, but over the preceding150 years, fragments of charts and intelligence about New Zealand ricochetedaround various parts of the world. In ADraught of the South Land, Paul Moon provides the first comprehensiveaccount of this piecemeal process.

Moon''s investigation covers several continentsover more than a century, and reveals the