02691nam 2200529Ia 450 991045409740332120200520144314.01-282-30977-397866123097790-567-52049-8(CKB)1000000000754649(EBL)436018(OCoLC)458562690(MiAaPQ)EBC436018(Au-PeEL)EBL436018(CaPaEBR)ebr10333169(CaONFJC)MIL230977(OCoLC)893333827(EXLCZ)99100000000075464920000809d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Old New Zealand and other writings[electronic resource] /F.E. Maning ; edited by Alex CalderLondon ;New York Leicester University Press20011 online resource (247 p.)The literature of travel, exploration and empireDescription based upon print version of record.0-7185-0196-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Note on Texts; History of the War in the North of New Zealand, Against the Chief Heke (1862); Editor's Notes; Old New Zealand; A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863); Editor's Notes; Appendix: Selected Letters 'The Native Question'; Editor's Notes to the Appendix; Bibliography; IndexIn Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in ""the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that."" His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnogLiterature of travel, exploration and empire.Maori (New Zealand people)Social life and customsNew ZealandDescription and travelNew ZealandHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Maori (New Zealand people)Social life and customs.993.02/2Maning Frederick Edward1812-1883.923213Calder Alex922515MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454097403321Old New Zealand and other writings2071611UNINA