INVENTORY #147879
Old England and New Zealand
SIMMONS, Alfred
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Title continues: "The government, laws, churches, public institutions, and the resources of New Zealand, popularly and critically compared with those of the Old Country with an Historical Sketch of the Maori race (the natives of New Zealand): to which are added extracts from the author's diary of his voyage to New Zealand, in company with 500 emigrants." Some interesting chapter titles: "Mr. Maori and his Camp Fire;" "Jesus Christ, a Maori, now living;" "Savage objections to Railways and Telegraphy;" "The Cities of New Zealand;" "No Workhouses to Visit, no Beggars to Bully;" "British Ignorance as to New Zealand;" "Wine-bibbing v. Beer-drinking in England;" "Go Back to England! Never!;" "Who should go to New Zealand?" "Is England on the Decline?" "The Future of New Zealand."
Publication Info
- Publisher: Edward Stanford
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1879
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
143 p. 23 cm. Fold-out colour map. Green cloth with gold print. Corners bumped, small tears in spine ends, some soiling to cloth. Offsetting to endpapers. Rear hinge cracked internally.