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The Turanga journals, 1840-1850 : letters and journals of William and Jane Williams, missionaries to Poverty Bay

Title
The Turanga journals, 1840-1850 : letters and journals of William and Jane Williams, missionaries to Poverty Bay / edited by Frances Porter.
Author
Williams, William, 1800-1878.
Publication
Wellington : Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, 1974.

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Additional Authors
  • Williams, Jane, 1801-1896.
  • Porter, Frances, 1925-2022
Description
659 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"In January 1840 William and Jane Williams landed at Turanga (PovertyBay) to begin the first East Coast mission station."--Jacket. This book coversthe first ten years of the mission and is their account of life in the busy and complicated Maori-missionary-Government-settler scene of the whole colony. Includes land buying in 1840s, and Bishop Selwyn.
Subject
  • Williams, William, 1800-1878
  • Williams, Jane, 1801-1896
  • Williams, William, 1800-1878
  • Missions > New Zealand
  • Missions
  • Mihinare
  • Mīhana
  • Kōrero taumata
  • Kōrero nehe
  • New Zealand
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 615-626.
ISBN
  • 9780507703727
  • 0507703723
  • 0507703720 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
75301508
OCLC
  • ocm01324643
  • 1324643
  • SCSB-425301
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library