David Colquhoun

This is a charming collection of historical Wellington images from the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library, accompanied by David Colquhoun's insightful and amusing text. If you're a professional historian, this is unlikely to be for you, but for anyone visiting Wellington and wanting to know something of its history, or Wellingtonians wanting a gift to give a flavour of the city, this should do very nicely. (Also, it has a photo of a much younger Peter Jackson menacing a Wellington show more suburb, King Kong-style, which is definitely worth seeing.) show less