Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index
Captain Ceroni's watch [the Boyd massacre] -- Adventures of the printer [Colenso's journals] -- Swells' sons run out: the travel writing of rovers, ramblers and adventurers [the Rev. John Williams, John Boultbee, Edward Markham, Augustus Earle, Edward Lucett, George Lillie Craik] -- Travel with interest [William Wade, William Yate, W.B. Marshall, Richard Cruise, Henry McKillop, Godfrey Mundy, John Carne Bidwill, J.S. Polack, New Zealand Company authors] -- Empire travellers 1: writers who travel [Lord Lyttelton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Anthony Trollope, James Anthony Froude] -- Empire travellers 2: travellers who write -- The business of travel [Cook's tours, guidebooks, photography] -- Exhausting the wonders [Constance Gordon Cumming, George Augustus Sala, stereotypes of Māori]