This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project: https://librivox.org/old-new-zealand-by-frederick-edward-maning/
A link to the full introduction by Philip Steer can be found here:Introduction to Old New Zealand
Philip Steer
Victoria University February 2004
Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 5 July 1811 or 1812 and immigrated to Tasmania with his family in 1823. He lived in New Zealand from 1833 until 1882, when ill health forced him to seek medical care in England. He died in London on 25 July 1883, but was buried in New Zealand later that year. His Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863) is one of the few pre-twentieth century New Zealand literary texts that have not descended into obscurity with passing time. Historian Peter Gibbons describes it as perhaps one of the best known and most widely read of all works on early New Zealand and it has often been reprinted.
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http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-SteOldN.html- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33342
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Genres for the project: Culture & Heritage; *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography
Keywords that describe the book: new zealand, pakeha maori, general and eastern hemisphere, history of oceania
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This book is part of a series published during the time of the Maori wars and after the signing of the treaty of Waitangi and fairly well known in New Zealand even today. I would love to read more from this series eventually. I have this book in printed form published 1863. The version on Project Gutenberg seems to be a newer version - it says posted 2010 in the description but with no reference to the original publishing date. The title also differs from my book and what is online. Likewise, I am not sure I will be allowed to use Philip Steer's introduction written in 2004.
Note: I am currently working on another project and do not intend to start immediately on this project which is why I have put the intended completion date to May 2017
. I'm off to FNQ (Far north Queensland) for a couple of weeks in July - still sorting out internet access but hope to have it.