THE LONG WHITE CLOUD William Pember Reeves - History of New Zealand

A classic book of early New Zealand history.

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Publisher's blurb: Preface I BELIEVE that there is amongst the people of the Mother Country a minority, now ceasing to be small, which takes a quictening interest in the Colonies. It no longer consists merely of would-be in- vestors, or emigrants who want to inquire into the resources, industries, and finances of one or other of the self-governing parts of thc Empire. Many of its members never expect to see a colony. But they have come to recognise that those new-corners into the circlc of civilized communities, the daughter nations of Britain, are not worthy of English study and English pride. They have begun to suspect that the story of their struggles into existence and prosperity may be stirring, romantic, and interesting, and that some of their political institution and experiments may be instructive, though others may seem less safe than curious. Some of those who think thus complain that it is not always easy to find an account of a colony which shall be neither an official advertisement, the sketch of a globe-trotting impressionist, nor yet an article manufactured to order by some honest but un- travelled maker of books. They ask-or at least some of them, to my knowledge, ask-for a history in which the picturesque side of the story shall not be ignored, written simply and concisely by a writer who has made a special study of his subject, or who has livecl and moved amongst the places, persons, and incidents he describes. I have lived in New Zealand, have seen it and studied it from end to end, and have had to do with its affairs it is my country. But I should not have presumed to endeavour to supply in its case the want above indicated had any short descriptive history of the colony from itsdiscovery to the present year been available. Among the many sccres of books about the Islands-some of which are good, more of which are bad-I know of none which does what is aimed at in this volume. I have, therefore, taken in hand a short sketch-history of mine, published some six months ago, have cut out some of it and have revised the rest, and blended it with the material of the following chapters, of which it forms nearly one-third. The result is something not quite so meagre in quantity or staccato in style, though even now less full than I should have liked to make it, had it been other than the work of an unknown writer telling the story of a small archipelago which is at once the most distant and well-nigh the youngest of English states. I have done my best in the later chapters to describe certain men and experiments without letting pcrsonal likes and dislikes run away with my pen have taken pains to avoid loading my pages with the names of places and persons of particular interest to British readers and at the same time have tried not to forget the value of local colour and atmosphere in a book of this kind....

Book Details

Code: SKU897

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 890

Published: 1998 by Senate

ISBN: 1859585353

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