Research Catalog

Title

I have named it the Bay of Islands-- / Jack Lee.

Author

Lee, Jack.

Publication

Auckland : Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.

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Details

Description

328 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"On 7 December 1769 Lieutenant James Cook sailed away from this bay, having duly recorded its newly acquired name on the chart he had made during the preceding week ... Within 75 years, the Bay of Islands was to become a focal point in the Pacific for trade and industry, as well as for every sort of commercial chicanery, land-jobbing and general lawlessness. Subject to a curious experiment in civil government and intensive missionary enterprise, within a short time these events would lead to open war, eventually eroding and destroying the ancient pattern of life of the proud people Cook had originally found there"--Introduction.

Subject

• Māori (New Zealand people)
• New Zealand > History
• Islands, Bay of (N.Z.) > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 309-313.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lieutenant James Cook -- Marion du Fresne -- Early contacts -- Tribal movements at 1800 -- Maori adventurers -- Prelude to the Boyd massacre -- The Boyd and its aftermath -- Mission settlement at Oihi -- Southseamen and missionaries -- The tribal wars and the missionaries -- Inland exploration -- Troubles and changes in the Mission -- Kororareka -- The last years of Hongi Hika and their aftermath -- The transition period -- The pace quickens -- Disorder and confusion -- Choas -- Climax -- Stagnation -- War.

ISBN

0340338784

LCCN

^^^84184085^

OCLC

• 11436986
• SCSB-12825196

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library