Author: WILLIAMS, John Brown.
Title: The New Zealand journal 1842-1844. Edited with an account of his life by Robert W. Kenny.
Description: Salem, Peabody Museum, 1956. Cloth. With folding map and 7 plates. XII,120 pp.'Except when Williams is obsessed with sin and punishment, his Journal makes entertaining and historically valuable reading for the picture it gives of a frontier society, an oboriginal society and the world in which both whites and Maoris lived. Williams appears as a somewhat chauvinistic Yankee, strongly anti-British, and an ardent believer in using the United States Navy to further the commercial interests of her citizens'.
Keywords: New Zealand
Title: The New Zealand journal 1842-1844. Edited with an account of his life by Robert W. Kenny.
Description: Salem, Peabody Museum, 1956. Cloth. With folding map and 7 plates. XII,120 pp.'Except when Williams is obsessed with sin and punishment, his Journal makes entertaining and historically valuable reading for the picture it gives of a frontier society, an oboriginal society and the world in which both whites and Maoris lived. Williams appears as a somewhat chauvinistic Yankee, strongly anti-British, and an ardent believer in using the United States Navy to further the commercial interests of her citizens'.
Keywords: New Zealand
Price: EUR 38.50 = appr. US$ 41.84 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 29303
- Book number: 29303