Old New Zealand

by Frederick Edward Maning

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In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in ""the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that."" His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnog… (more)

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This book was fun, easy and fairly short, taking me only a few days to read. Maning is a great story teller, working wit and humour and probably a good deal of exaggeration into his story of New Zealand prior to European colonisation.

I'd never heard of the Maori concept of muru before, although coincidentally it also appeared in another - far more serious - book I'm also currently reading. (

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weemanda | Nov 2, 2023 |

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"Old New Zealand and other writings" contains extra material, so should not be combined with "Old New Zealand [a tale of the good old times together with a history of the war...]".

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In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in ""the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that."" His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnog

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In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that." His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate.

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