Author: George Grey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"Second edition of a collection of Māori legends, in English and Māori"--BIM.
Ko nga mahi a nga tupuna maori ha mea kohikohi mai na
Author: George Grey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"Second edition of a collection of Māori legends, in English and Māori"--BIM.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"Second edition of a collection of Māori legends, in English and Māori"--BIM.
Polynesian Mythology
Author: George Grey
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781470079284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
TOWARDS the close of the year 1845 I was suddenly and unexpectedly required by the British Government to administer the affairs of New Zealand, and shortly afterwards received the appointment of Governor-in-chief of those Islands. When I arrived in them, I found Her Majesty's native subjects engaged in hostilities with the Queen's troops, against whom they had up to that time contended with considerable success; so much discontent also prevailed generally amongst the native population, that where disturbances had not yet taken place, there was too much reason to apprehend they would soon break out, as they shortly afterwards did, in several parts of the Islands.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781470079284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
TOWARDS the close of the year 1845 I was suddenly and unexpectedly required by the British Government to administer the affairs of New Zealand, and shortly afterwards received the appointment of Governor-in-chief of those Islands. When I arrived in them, I found Her Majesty's native subjects engaged in hostilities with the Queen's troops, against whom they had up to that time contended with considerable success; so much discontent also prevailed generally amongst the native population, that where disturbances had not yet taken place, there was too much reason to apprehend they would soon break out, as they shortly afterwards did, in several parts of the Islands.
Musings in Maoriland
Author: Thomas Bracken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Pioneer poetry.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Pioneer poetry.
Statesman of Europe
Author: T. G. Otte
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241413370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world. The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main domestic and international events, and of the main personalities of the era. In particular, it presents a fresh understanding of the approach to war in the years and months before its outbreak, and Grey's role in the unfolding of events. Yet Grey's life was not all public affairs, momentous as those were. He disliked being in London, much preferring country life at Fallodon, his family estate in Northumberland, and displayed none of the ambition of his contemporaries (or successors). He attended assiduously to his duties as director of the Great North Eastern Railway, one of the transformative enterprises in industry and communications of the period, and wanted to spend as much time as he could fishing. Apart from his memoirs, the only book he wrote was called The Charm of Birds. This hinterland gave quality to his judgements, and made his character attractive to his contemporaries. This important book is the definitive biography of one of the pivotal figures in European diplomacy, and a magnificent portrait of an age.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241413370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world. The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main domestic and international events, and of the main personalities of the era. In particular, it presents a fresh understanding of the approach to war in the years and months before its outbreak, and Grey's role in the unfolding of events. Yet Grey's life was not all public affairs, momentous as those were. He disliked being in London, much preferring country life at Fallodon, his family estate in Northumberland, and displayed none of the ambition of his contemporaries (or successors). He attended assiduously to his duties as director of the Great North Eastern Railway, one of the transformative enterprises in industry and communications of the period, and wanted to spend as much time as he could fishing. Apart from his memoirs, the only book he wrote was called The Charm of Birds. This hinterland gave quality to his judgements, and made his character attractive to his contemporaries. This important book is the definitive biography of one of the pivotal figures in European diplomacy, and a magnificent portrait of an age.
Grammar of the New Zealand Language
Author: Robert Maunsell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Variant issue of the grammar, incorporating amended Part 1"--BIM
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Variant issue of the grammar, incorporating amended Part 1"--BIM
Ko Nga Mahinga a Nga Tupuna Maori He Mea Kohikohi Mai
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government
Author: George Grey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368887351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368887351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Grey and Iwikau
Author: Alex Frame
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Before the Maori tribes of New Zealand and the government descended into hostilities, the governor, Sir George Grey, and a Maori chief, Iwikau Te Heu, journeyed together from Auckland to Taupo in 1849-1850. This book explores their travels and sheds light on the interaction between the respective cultures of Grey and Iwikau, with a special focus on the custom and law of the time.
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Before the Maori tribes of New Zealand and the government descended into hostilities, the governor, Sir George Grey, and a Maori chief, Iwikau Te Heu, journeyed together from Auckland to Taupo in 1849-1850. This book explores their travels and sheds light on the interaction between the respective cultures of Grey and Iwikau, with a special focus on the custom and law of the time.
George Washington, Frontiersman
Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812579239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Tells the story from Washington's birth to the time he takes command of the Continental Army.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812579239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Tells the story from Washington's birth to the time he takes command of the Continental Army.
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing character first appeared in Gabaldon’s blockbuster, Voyager, and readers cheered him on in the New York Times bestselling Lord John and the Private Matter. Diana Gabaldon takes readers back to eighteenth-century Britain as Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret as well as a clandestine love affair, set against the background of the Seven Years War. Seventeen years earlier, Grey’s father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself, days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to fight at Culloden, Grey’s elder brother has succeeded in redeeming the family name, aided by Grey, now a major in that regiment. But now, on the eve of the regiment’s move to Germany, comes a mysterious threat that throws the matter of the Duke’s death into stark new question, and brings the Grey brothers into fresh conflict with the past and each other. From barracks and parade grounds to the battlefields of Prussia and the stony fells of the Lake District, Lord John’s struggle to find the truth leads him through danger and passion, ever deeper, toward the answer to the question at the centre of his soul–what is it that is most important to a man? Love, loyalty, family name? Self-respect, or honesty? Surviving both the battle of Krefeld and a searing personal betrayal, he returns to the Lake District to find the man who may hold the key to his quest: a Jacobite prisoner named Jamie Fraser. Here, Grey finds his truth and faces a final choice: between honour and life itself.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing character first appeared in Gabaldon’s blockbuster, Voyager, and readers cheered him on in the New York Times bestselling Lord John and the Private Matter. Diana Gabaldon takes readers back to eighteenth-century Britain as Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret as well as a clandestine love affair, set against the background of the Seven Years War. Seventeen years earlier, Grey’s father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself, days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to fight at Culloden, Grey’s elder brother has succeeded in redeeming the family name, aided by Grey, now a major in that regiment. But now, on the eve of the regiment’s move to Germany, comes a mysterious threat that throws the matter of the Duke’s death into stark new question, and brings the Grey brothers into fresh conflict with the past and each other. From barracks and parade grounds to the battlefields of Prussia and the stony fells of the Lake District, Lord John’s struggle to find the truth leads him through danger and passion, ever deeper, toward the answer to the question at the centre of his soul–what is it that is most important to a man? Love, loyalty, family name? Self-respect, or honesty? Surviving both the battle of Krefeld and a searing personal betrayal, he returns to the Lake District to find the man who may hold the key to his quest: a Jacobite prisoner named Jamie Fraser. Here, Grey finds his truth and faces a final choice: between honour and life itself.