French Akaroa

A comprehensive account about the lives of French immigrants in New Zealand, this work chronicles the social and political events in 1840 when New Zealand was nearly divided into two countries—a French South Island and a British North Island. It examines how communities still nurture the French heritage that attracts many tourists to the town of Akaroa to this day.

Peter Tremewan is a retired professor of French at the University of Canterbury. He is the author of Selling Otago and has written widely about French whalers, scientists, settlers, writers, and missionaries who came to work in New Zealand in the 19th century.