Literature of Travel, Exploration & Empire S. – serie
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Häftad, Engelska, 1998
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These narratives explore the fascinating connections between Britain's systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and slavery in two travelogues from Botany Bay and Sierra Leone.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
1 259 kr
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In this work, a "pakeha Maori" trader looks back to "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that". It is a construction of Maori life and customs, most notibly of "tapu" (taboo). There is also a selection of Maning's unpublished letters.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
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In 1878 a German named Overbeck and an Englishman named Dent travelled to North Borneo (now Sabah), announced to the locals that their rules, the Sultan of Brunei, had sold all trade rights in the region, and left a young man named William Pryor to "establish" the British North Borneo Company there. This is William's wife's account.