The places they left behind. ABOVE: Abel Tasmanweg, the street in the village of Lutjegast, in the Netherlands where Abel Tasman spent his boyhood. Tasman was born in a cottage here in 1603, thirty-nine years before his discovery of New Zealand. BELOW: Poppelsdorf Castle, near Bonn in West Germany, where Julius von Haast studied geology 150 years ago. Haast came to New Zealand in 1858 and became world famous as an explorer and geologist. He was the founder of the Canterbury Museum and first Professor of Geology at Canterbury University. Both illustrations come from “The New Zealand European Connection,” by Martin O’Connor (Grantham House, $29.95). The book describes and illustrates places in Europe that have close associations with people notable in New Zealand history. It would be an unusual and entertaining guide for New Zealand visitors to Britain, Europe, and Turkey.

Press, 22 July 1989, Page 24

The places they left behind. ABOVE: Abel Tasmanweg, the street in the village of Lutjegast, in the Netherlands where Abel Tasman spent his boyhood. Tasman was born in a cottage here in 1603, thirty-nine years before his discovery of New Zealand. BELOW: Poppelsdorf Castle, near Bonn in West Germany, where Julius von Haast studied geology 150 years ago. Haast came to New Zealand in 1858 and became world famous as an explorer and geologist. He was the founder of the Canterbury Museum and first Professor of Geology at Canterbury University. Both illustrations come from “The New Zealand European Connection,” by Martin O’Connor (Grantham House, $29.95). The book describes and illustrates places in Europe that have close associations with people notable in New Zealand history. It would be an unusual and entertaining guide for New Zealand visitors to Britain, Europe, and Turkey.