Sailing To Bohemia: A Life Of The Honourable William Swainson

Author: John Stacpoole

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Price : $123.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780908943357
Publisher : J. Stacpoole
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Publication date : 01 January 2007
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Author : John Stacpoole
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Pages : 200
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A biography of William Swainson, Attorney-General (1841-56), member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and writer. Swainson was to write in his own book, 'New Zealand and its Colonization', he conceived the British Government's principal object in establishing its authority to be the promotion of the civilisation and development of the Maori people.