
Hocken
Prince of Collectors
Donald Kerr(Author)
Otago University Press
Published on 1. September 2015
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-877578-66-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dr. Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862 at the age of 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed books, manuscripts, sketches, maps, and photographs of early New Zealand. Much of his initial collecting focused on the early discovery narratives of James Cook, the writings of Rev. Samuel Marsden and his contemporaries, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the New Zealand Company, and Maori, especially in the south. He gifted his collection to the University of Otago in 1910. In this magnificent piece of research, Donald Kerr examines Hocken's collecting activities and his vital contribution to preserving the history of New Zealand's early postcontact period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dunedin
New Zealand
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1120 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-877578-66-3 (9781877578663)
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