The Collector ‘Fills in this missing piece

‘Fills in this missing piece of New Zealand’s architectural history’ — Kelly Dennett

at a time when his legacy is being newly appreciated

It has required that medical and other healthcare practitioners

and many others

To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding

The Collector ‘Fills in this missing pieceThe vivid biography of a colonial scholar, scientist and gentleman Longlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards When Thomas Cheeseman arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1853 at the age of eight, the world outside knew little of this countrys people, plants, animals and environment. Within weeks, he began a lifelong love of collecting and classifying, and by his early twenties he was making waves in colonial scientific circles. Appointed the