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Mungo Park's Trunk: A Journey - Scotland to New Zealand

Nola Easdale

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Description:The surveyor Robert Park arrived in New Zealand in 1839. He became a notable figure in New Zealand's public life and has an important place in the history of surveying in New Zealand and a place in the history of New Zealand art.He also fathered three families. In Mungo Park's Trunk, Nola Easdale teases apart the complexities of Robert Park's personal life and traces the histories of his children and their children in turn. In the course of doing so she also solves the puzzle of how a trunk that once belonged to the great Scottish West African explorer, Mungo Park, ended up in the possession of a Maori family in Petone, New Zealand.This is the fascinating history of a complex family that casts revealing light on many curious aspects of New Zealand's 19th and 20th century history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mungo Park's Trunk: A Journey - Scotland to New Zealand. To get started finding Mungo Park's Trunk: A Journey - Scotland to New Zealand, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 280

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Te Waihora Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0908714106

Description: The surveyor Robert Park arrived in New Zealand in 1839. He became a notable figure in New Zealand's public life and has an important place in the history of surveying in New Zealand and a place in the history of New Zealand art.He also fathered three families. In Mungo Park's Trunk, Nola Easdale teases apart the complexities of Robert Park's personal life and traces the histories of his children and their children in turn. In the course of doing so she also solves the puzzle of how a trunk that once belonged to the great Scottish West African explorer, Mungo Park, ended up in the possession of a Maori family in Petone, New Zealand.This is the fascinating history of a complex family that casts revealing light on many curious aspects of New Zealand's 19th and 20th century history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mungo Park's Trunk: A Journey - Scotland to New Zealand. To get started finding Mungo Park's Trunk: A Journey - Scotland to New Zealand, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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