Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 1, Issue 2, November 1982
Nancy M. Taylor–Early Travellers in New Zealand – (1959)
Nancy M. Taylor–Early Travellers in New Zealand – (1959)
covers the journeys undertaken by Heaphy, Fox and Brunner in depth, including Brunner's Journal of his expedition of 1846–1848.
Brunner's epic journey down the Buller River from its source to its mouth, thence down the rugged coastline as far as the Paringa River and returning up the valley of the Grey River to the Inangahua Valley and finally back via the Buller River to Nelson occupied a period from December 1846 until June 1848.
Brunner's Journal was first published in The Examiner in a series of four issues of 30th September and 7th, 14th and 21st October 1848. Charles Elliott, the printer of The Examiner reprinted the Journal with additions in a 17 page folio, and on 11th March 1850 the Journal was read to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society and published in Vol. XX of that Society's Journal. The complete Journal with an introduction and notes by John Pascoe was published by the Pegasus Press in 1952.