Letters from the Bay of Islands

Letters from the Bay of Islands
Author :
Publisher : Penguin Books
Total Pages : 270
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0143205706
ISBN-13 : 9780143205708
Rating : 4/5 (708 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Letters from the Bay of Islands by : Marianne Williams

Download or read book Letters from the Bay of Islands written by Marianne Williams and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and their three small children, left England forever. Their new home, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, was a remote one-house settlement - the Church Missionary Society mission station headquarters. This was nearly twenty years before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Marianne's only contact with the outside world was in letters home to her family in Nottingham. It is through these letters that her story can be told. At a time when most women of her age and class were enjoying the luxuries of industrial England, Marianne Williams was living among warring Maori tribes with unruly whaling crews across the bay. With her husband often absent, she was nurse, midwife, and surrogate missionary in the community and coped with running the mission station and schools, providing hospitality to visiting European explorers - including Charles Darwin - and tending to her growing family of eleven children. Yet, despite these immense demands, in her letters the bravery and uncomplaining determination of this extraordinary woman shine through.


Letters from the Bay of Islands Related Books

Letters from the Bay of Islands
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Marianne Williams
Categories: Maori (New Zealand people)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penguin Books

GET EBOOK

In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and their three small children, left England forever. Their new home, in New Zealand's Bay of Islan
Letters despatched from the cape, 1652-1662. vol. I-III
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Archives
Categories: Archives
Type: BOOK - Published: 1900 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Letters from the West of Ireland, 1884
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Alexander Innes Shand
Categories: Ireland
Type: BOOK - Published: 1885 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific, and in New South Wales, 1794-1799
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Michael Roe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs from t
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Historical sketches: Letters N through S. Appendices: Submarine chasers (SC), Eagle-class patrol craft (PE)
Language: en
Pages: 784