A People's History 1769 - 1869 (by Selected by W.H Olliver)

• 1992 edition,  281 pages
• Published by Bridget Williams Books & Dept. of Internal Affairs NZ
• Format: Softcover, large format book
• Very good condition, minor cover wear, minor spine edge fading

Illustrated Biographies from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume One,  1769-1869.

In over a hundred illustrated biographies from the nineteenth century,  A People's History captures the lives of those who 'strove to stand upright in a strange land'  - the ordinary men and women whose history has rarely been told.

Here we find the convict Charlotte Badger and policeman Karira;  Alexander Bruce, trade unionist, and Sarah Ann Cripps, postmistress;  Pene Taka Tuia, militaray engineer and Abner Clough, farm worker;  a composer of waiata, Mihi-ki-te-kapua, and a political writer, Mary Ann Muller;  the father of Apirana Ngata (Paratene Ngata) and the son of Te Rauparaha (Tamihana Te Rauparaha); the peacemaker Te Ao-kapurangi and the soldier Marmaduke Nixon.

Illustrations, including some magnificent portraits have been chosen carefully to amplify the biographies.  Through A People's History we can look with unusual clarity into the life of early New Zealand.