The History of Hawke's Bay

Hawke's Bay has a remarkable history, brief by world standards, yet filled with colour, pace and life. This illustrated history covers the broad sweep of Hawke's Bay's past, from the Maori history of the district to Hawke's Bay's settler era, the highs and lows of the twentieth century with its wars, depressions and booms; and the social transformations of the early twenty-first century.