Peter Tremewan (2)

French Akaroa (2018)

ISBN: 9781877257971

Author: Peter Tremewan    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

Updated reprint While the British were sending settlers to the North Island in 1840, the French were sending them to the South Island. This book looks at the el...


Updated reprint While the British were sending settlers to the North Island in 1840, the French were sending them to the South Island. This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at what the French did when they found the British had got there first. The lives of the French (and German) men, women and children who ended up creating little settlements in Akaroa Harbour is a major focus of this fascinating book, which also explains some of the French heritage that attracts so many tourists to the Banks Peninsula town of Akaroa today. The first edition of Peter Tremewan’s ‘French Akaroa’ was published in 1990, and the second edition was extensively updated and enlarged for publication in 2010. ‘French Akaroa’ has now been reprinted with minor corrections, new information having come to hand.


Pages: 396


Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm


Publication Date: 18-05-2018


Tags: New Zealand   History
$49.99
Living Among The Northland Maori

ISBN: 9781988503028

Authors: Peter Tremewan, Giselle Larcombe    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland ...


A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Māori is Garin’s diary recording his experiences from 1844 to 1846 as he gets to know the Māori in the region. The diary provides vivid accounts of contemporary events, as Garin came dangerously close to the action of the Northern War, and wrote of such prominent figures as Hōne Heke and Kawiti as they opposed the new colonial authorities. Above all, the diary is an intimate record of life in a Māori community in which Garin describes the close relationships he formed with his new neighbours – from his young followers and local families to the chiefs who offered him protection while he lived among them. This is the first full English translation of Garin’s surviving Mangakāhia journals and letters. Frank, open-minded and often humorous, Garin’s diary is a major contribution to the early history of European settlement in Aotearoa and a compelling insight into Māori customs, values and beliefs of the time.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 620


Dimensions: 190 x 258 mm


Publication Date: 29-03-2019


Tags: History   New Zealand   Biography
$89.99
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