New Zealand

This volume contains a series of letters and journals providing an account of the early history of colonial New Zealand

George Augustus Selwyn (Author)

9781108018265, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 August 2010

418 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg

George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand, with Selwyn College, Cambridge later named in his honour. New Zealand was declared an independent British colony in 1841 and the Diocese of New Zealand was established in the same year. After graduating from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1831, Selwyn had been ordained priest in 1834 and consecrated as the first Bishop of New Zealand in 1841. This volume, first published in 1844, contains a series of journals and letters written by Selwyn during his first two years in New Zealand. He provides an intimate and detailed description of the organisation and society of the new colony and the growth of new settlements including Auckland and Wellington. He also describes the landscape and lives of the Maori in remote areas mostly untouched by colonisation, providing a fascinating account of the early history of colonial New Zealand.

1. Letters from the Bishop to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, together with extracts from visitation journal, from July 1842 to January 1843
2. Journal of the Bishop's visitation tour, from August to December, 1843
3. Journal of the Bishop's visitation tour, from December 1843 to March 1844
4. A letter from the Bishop of New Zealand to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, containing an account of the affray between the settlers and the natives at Kororareka
5. A journal of the Bishop's visitation tour through his diocese, including a visit to the Chatham Islands, in the year 1848.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]