Surveyor, Thomas Brunner
Episode 2
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Explorers is a documentary series that retraces some of the epic journeys undertaken by our early explorers as they forged their way through unmapped country across New Zealand. Four nineteenth century overland journeys provide the challenge for host Peter Elliott , who swaps the comforts of modern maritime transport, familiar to him during Captains Log, for a pair of sturdy tramping boots. Elliott picks up his backpack and plunges into some of New Zealand's most forbidding and spectacular hinterland to uncover the tracks of four of our pioneering Pakeha explorers:
Episode One: Draughtsman, Charles Heaphy
Episode Two: Surveyor, Thomas Brunner
Episode Three: Gold Prospector, Alpheus J (George) Barrington
Episode Four: Missionary, William Colenso .