EIGHTY YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND: EMBRACING FIFTY YEARS OF NEW ZEALAND FISHING. By George Edward Mannering. With illustrations.

1943 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp255. B/w photographs and illustrations. Grey cloth, upper board and spine titled in red.

The autobiography of well-known New Zealand mountaineer, George Edward Mannering. A good deal of angling and shooting". His accounts of climbing and canoeing are capital adventure stories, and his accounts of fishing should have considerable practical and historical value. The chapter on the nature of glaciers seems to me one of the most interesting in the book. Few, if anyone, in New Zealand can have had so long or so close a knowledge of them. And I do not know elsewhere so good a description of life in Canterbury during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century". (From the foreword by L.G.D. Acland). Chapters include:- Birch Hill (North Canterbury); Fernside; Christchurch schools; Sailing ship to England - 1876; Schools in England; Three weeks on the continent; Horses and riding; Pig hunting; Bicycling and shooting; Removal to Christchurch - 1888; Christchurch Society in the 'eighties and 'nineties; Marriage; Removal to North Island - 1897; New Plymouth and Taranaki - 1902-1907; Timaru and South Canterbury - 1907-1911; Napier and Hawke's Bay - 1911-1919; Christchurch again - 1919; Six weeks in Switzerland; Back to New Zealand; Canoeing; Fifty years of New Zealand fishing; Hawke's Bay and Taupo - 1911-1919; Fifty years of New Zealand fishing (continued); Mountaineering in New Zealand; Mount Hutt; More random collections; The phenonema of glaciers.