Editore: Otago University Press, New Zealand, 2014
Da: BOOKMARK, Auckland, Nuova Zelanda
Prima edizione
Soft Copy. Condizione: NF. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. First Edition. Clean colour illustrated cover. Clean contents. Generous colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 336p.
Da: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, Australia
Copia autografata
Dunedin : Otago University Press, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 336, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page with a presentation inscription on the half-title. 'When a small group of three English families were landed in the bay below Rangihoua pa? in 1814, under the protection of its chief and inhabitants, the story told in Pe?whairangi began. It is the story of New Zealand's first permanent European settlement, at Hohi, and the church mission that it represented, and of the other mission communities subsequently established in the Bay of Islands, at Kerikeri, Paihia, Te Puna and Waimate. It is a story of Nga?puhi and Pa?keha? engagement, as neighbours, over four decades. More than anything else, the rich fabric of this book is a story of people: of the chiefs Te Pahi, Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Ta?reha, Korokoro, of the missionaries John King, Thomas Kendall, James Kemp, John Butler, George Clarke, William Yate and Henry Williams, of the mastermind Samuel Marsden, and of the wives and children of all these men: Hongi's wife Turikatuku and daughter Hariata, Hannah King and Hannah Butler, Hone Heke and George Clarke junior, Marianne Williams and Charlotte Kemp. And recording the multiple comings and goings in the Bay were the artists, amateur and professional, whose works supply many of the book's fine illustrations.' - the publisher.