Download or read book The Maungatapu Mountain Murders written by Richard Hill and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Maori Tai nui written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... An official collection of Māori historical traditions"--BIM.
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Maori His Mythology and Traditions written by John White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1887-90, this six-volume compilation of Maori oral literature, with English translations, contains traditions about deities, origins and warfare.
Download or read book Murder on the Maungatapu written by Wayne Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the Burgess Gang and their greatest crime In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write.
Download or read book The Story of Te Waharoa A Chapter in Early New Zealand History written by John Alexander WILSON (Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Phrenology written by A. S. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold in a Tin Dish The history of the Wakamarina Goldfield written by M. R. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Around The World With Mark Twain written by Robert Cooper and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life. Around the World with Mark Twain delights while deepening our understanding of this magnificent personality.
Download or read book The History of Australasia written by David Blair and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of early navigators and expeditions, contacts with natives Australia & Tasmania; Chap. 7; Physical characteristics, corroborees, general life; administration under governors.
Download or read book Law Breakers and Mischief Makers written by Bronwyn Sell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was supposed to be a model society at the end of the world, a utopia for 'men and women of good character' who were willing to work hard for a better life. And, for most, so it proved. But this book is about the others - the misfits, the swindlers, the fallen women, the love rats, the escaped convicts, the hoaxers, the charlatans, the highwaymen, the mass murderers - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. Law Breakers and Mischief Makers gives the scandalous details of those who've made a name for themselves in New Zealand for all the wrong reasons. Take for example, Charlotte Badger, a pistol-wielding English thief who launched a mutiny on a Tasmanian convict ship in 1806 and sailed over to hide among the Maori of the Bay of Islands, and Amy Bock, a con woman who masqueraded as a wealthy man to marry the daughter of her landlady in 1909.Some of the people featured in this book are monsters, some are merely rascals, but all make fascinating reading. A lot of the people featured in it have somewhat disappeared into the mists of time and readers will be surprised at the shady characters in this country's past.
Download or read book Richard Ramsay Armstrong s Book of His Adventures written by Richard Ramsay Armstrong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of Richard Ramsay Armstrong, RN, 1833 - 1910. 3 years on the Coast of Africa for suppression of the slave trade. Then the Crimea, and 6 months with the Naval Brigade. He survived cholera but was wounded 5 times. Back at home the doctors thought he would die. Instead, he emigrated to NZ, to try farming. It didn't work out, so, he went to be a planter in Fiji. This failed, but he had to survive many hazards: a hurricane wiped him out. Then he was the official at Lord Howe Is. He became the thorn in the side of speculators who got his dismissal on trumped up charges. Back in Australia several schemes failed to make his fortune. He never mentions his family and though he fathered 6 children, he always seems to have been off on some project, giving the impression of a poor family man! This is confirmed by his wife's occasional diary which is included after his work. There are extensive footnotes and a substantial appendix examining some of Armstrong's stories in detail.
Download or read book The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie written by David Murray Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the Taranaki Herald, ‘Shocking outrage', cried the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been found lying under a flax bush near Opunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut so deep her head was almost severed. In the midst of tensions between Maori and Pakeha in 1880, the murder ignited questions: Pakeha feared it was an act of political terrorism in response to the state's determination to take the land of the tribes in the region. Maori thought it would be the cue for the state to use force against them, especially the pacifist settlement at Parihaka. Was it rape or robbery, was the killer Maori or Pakeha? In this book, David Hastings takes us back to that lonely road on the Taranaki coast in nineteenth-century New Zealand to unravels the many deaths of Mary Dobie – the murder, the social tensions in Taranaki, the hunt for the killer and the lessons that Maori and Pakeha learnt about the murder and about themselves.
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Download or read book Station Amusements in New Zealand written by Lady Barker (Mary Anne) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reef Madness written by Ernest Hunter and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a tale that doesn't seem like it would be a winner; an improbable proposition of a ten-mile reef of gold in the middle of the continent, a cabal of scheming investors, a farrago of poor planning and preposterous publicity, the fiasco of the prematurely celebrated triumph of technology over unforgiving terrain, a dead prospector - and no gold. The Central Australian Gold Exploration Company had it all, and Lasseter's Last Ride was in the stores before the final chapter of the real-life debacle had closed. It was a runaway success. Angus and Robertson sold three million copies of Ion Idriess' sixty-some books before he died in 1979. But in 1931, as he was working on what would be Lasseter's Last Ride, he was looking for an angle. In filling the gaps between the few facts with detailed descriptions of lands and people he had never seen, he found it - and promoted it - in Magic and Mystery. Idriess' fictional account of the last months of the life of Harold Bell Lasseter gave birth to a legend that has repeated in dozens of books, films, poems, podcasts, websites and exhibitions, is memorialised in the names of a highway and a casino, and has spawned searches and scams that continue nearly a century later. Idriess was probably surprised at its success and chose not to tamper with a winning formula when inconvenient material soon emerged. To do that he had to control the evidence and continued to insist on his narrative's unimpeachable adherence to fact. Reef Madness exposes how Idriess confected his first successful book and why the story of a failed prospector became a quintessentially Australian myth.
Download or read book War to the Knife written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
