- Hardcover: 270 pages
- Publisher: Sutton Publishing; First Edition edition (15 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750936967
- ISBN-13: 978-0750936965
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In 1822, nearly twenty years before the Treaty of Waitangi imposed British control over Maori land, Marianne Williams, her husband, Henry, a missionary, and their three children, left England bound for the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
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Caroline Fitzgerald is the great granddaughter of Marianne Williams and lives in New Zealand. She works as a journalist and this is her first book.
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Samuel Marsden is credited with the start of it all.
This book adds another perspective to the arrival of the Pakeha in North Island, all the more appropriate in view of the forthcoming Bicentennial in December 2014.
For Marsden never stayed long, and the hard grind of cross cultural contact, language learning and actually living on the Island was carried out by others.
As we don't have written Maori records of the time, these letters fill in some gaps from others' accounts, flatly contradict some of the received wisdom over the years about the value of and progress of teaching literacy and other 'civilised' skills and above all brings out the humanity of bold pioneers,who underwent perils and hardships.
Marianne Williams had guts and grace.
It's all rather humbling really!
This book adds another perspective to the arrival of the Pakeha in North Island, all the more appropriate in view of the forthcoming Bicentennial in December 2014.
For Marsden never stayed long, and the hard grind of cross cultural contact, language learning and actually living on the Island was carried out by others.
As we don't have written Maori records of the time, these letters fill in some gaps from others' accounts, flatly contradict some of the received wisdom over the years about the value of and progress of teaching literacy and other 'civilised' skills and above all brings out the humanity of bold pioneers,who underwent perils and hardships.
Marianne Williams had guts and grace.
It's all rather humbling really!
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