Singer in a songless land : a life of Edward Tregear, 1846-1931 / K.R. Howe.
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TextPublisher: Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland University Press, 1991Description: 241, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1869400585
- 9781869400583
- Tregear, Edward, 1846-1931
- Ethnologists -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Authors, New Zealand -- Biography
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- New Zealand -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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"An acclaimed international authority in Maori and Polynesian studies and ... Secretary of the Department of Labour ... he was a poet, novelist and social critic"--Prologue.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index.
Prologue -- 1. 'The Fates remove me From human dwellings to the desert landes' 1846-1882 -- 2. 'Every wood and hill, every lake and river is haunted by beautiful or dreadful beings' 1882-1885 -- 3. 'A gentleman well known in scientific circles' 1885-1891 -- 4. 'Apostle of bureaucracy' 1891-1896 -- 5. 'The moody man who pines for the voices in the mist' 1891-1896 -- 6. 'Practically I am the Minister of Labour' 1896-1906 -- 7. 'Islets of coral ringed with calm Farewell, farewell!' 1896-1906 -- 8. 'I look upon pessimism as mere disappointed egoism' 1906-1911 -- 9. 'I.fight in the open now' 1911-1914 -- 10. 'To prepare.for the Great Adventure 1914-1931 -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- References -- Bibliography -- Publications by Tregear -- Index.
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