Table of Contents

Contents include: LAND, SEA AND SKY - Geology of the West -- HE KOHIKOHINGA KORERO MO HIKURANGI - Te Kawarau a Maki -- STRUGGLE COUNTRY - Early European Settlement pre-1900 -- READ ALL ABOUT IT - Media -- WATER OF LIFE - The Manukau -- INTO THE WEST - The Immigrants -- TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS - Industry and Commerce -- A PIECE OF UNSPOILED PLANET - the West Coast as Playground --HOW THE WEST WAS RUN - Civic History -- CALL OF THE WILD - The Waitakere Ranges.

About the Author

Editor Finlay Macdonald is a well-known contributor to newspapers and magazines, is the former editor of the Listener and a Sunday Star Times columnist. He has also worked for Metro magazine and writes for television. Other authors include Bruce Hayward, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Tara Werner, Keith Stewart, Helen Schamroth, Jonathan Hunt and Bob Harvey.