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Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Journey to a Hanging - The Events That Set New Zealand Race Relations Back By A Century by Peter Wells
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
new Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about an event that set back race relations in New Zealand by one hundred years. In 1862, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. His shrunken he ...Show more
The Hungry Heart - Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
"I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled ...Show more
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