One of a 16-volume series in landscape format, each volume giving the history and development of a different region from the 1860s to the 1950s. For a wide readership, a short introduction covers the region's earliest Pakeha history, and is followed by 70 pages of black (or sepia) and white photographs from family albums. Informative and slightly tongue-in-cheek captions take into account post-1970s thinking about women, Maori, and the environment.