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The hungry heart :
journeys with William Colenso /

Wells, Peter, 1950-

The hungry heart : journeys with William Colenso / Peter Wells. - Auckland, N.Z. : Vintage, 2011. - 467 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-453) and index.

"Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout his career. Peter Wells refreshes our vision of this awkward, highly talented man, who lost his family after the church expelled him for fathering a child by a Maori woman. Thrown out, Colenso found a home through his collecting - and we can reconstruct regions of New Zealand today only because of his botanical studies. He also found a home through words, writing a remarkable series of pamphlets that open up the past. 'I write for future generations, ' he wrote in 1881. The time has come to welcome Colenso back"--

New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 Non-Fiction Finalist.

9781869794743

Random House


Colenso, W. 1811-1899.


Printers--New Zealand--Biography
Botanists--New Zealand--Biography.
Missionaries--New Zealand--Biography.
Church of England--Clergy--Biography.


New Zealand--History--19th century.


Biographies.

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