Curtain Raiser To A Colony: Sidelights On The Founding Of New Zealand

Author: Cecil and Celia Manson

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Barcode D978009003400
D978009003400

Local Description

VG in G dust jacket.  d/j has been protectively wrapped in plastic, though the tape used to fix it in place has left marks on the endpapers.

Description

A London business man who schemed to plant colonies in a country he had never seen . . . An eccentric young man of French birth who dreamed of setting up his own kingdom . . . A humble Maori youth who was lionised as a prince by London society . . . New Zealand's first town planner, who from his London office planned a dream city on the Hutt River, complete with Billingsgate Fish Market and President's Palace! These are some of the people, characters of varying importance in the story of New Zealand, who come to life in Curtain-Raiser to a Colony.