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Published by Penguin Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0143019295ISBN 13: 9780143019299
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd. light shelf wear on the wraps. a bit marked. contents are all intact and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Penguin Books
ISBN 10: 0143205706ISBN 13: 9780143205708
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
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Paperback. 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. Bookplate inside cover, foxing to edges.