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 from Robben Island
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Robert D. Vassen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-08-31 - Publisher: MSU Press

GET EBOOK

Late one night in July, 1963, a South African police unit surrounded the African National Congress headquarters in Rivonia and arrested a group of Movement lead
Anna
Language: en
Pages: 495
Authors: Anna Matilda King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

GET EBOOK

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This
Letters from Rifka
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Karen Hesse
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-06 - Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

GET EBOOK

From Newbery media winner Karen Hesse comes an unforgettable story of an immigrant family's journey to America. "America," the girl repeated. "What will you do
Letters from Cuba
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Ruth Behar
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-31 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her