The King Country
Title | The King Country PDF eBook |
Author | J.H Kerry-Nicholls |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2020-07-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752350008 |
Reproduction of the original: The King Country by J.H Kerry-Nicholls
Dancing with the King
Title | Dancing with the King PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Belgrave |
Publisher | Auckland University Press |
Pages | 719 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1775589390 |
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state – a land governed by the Maori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Dancing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King's country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement. For twenty years, the King and the Queen's representatives engaged in a dance of diplomacy involving gamesmanship, conspiracy, pageantry and hard headed politics, with the occasional act of violence or threat of it. While the Crown refused to acknowledge the King's legitimacy, the colonial government and the settlers were forced to treat Tawhiao as a King, to negotiate with him as the ruler and representative of a sovereign state, and to accord him the respect and formality that this involved. Colonial negotiators even made Tawhiao offers of settlement that came very close to recognising his sovereign authority. Dancing with the King is a riveting account of a key moment in New Zealand history as an extraordinary cast of characters – Tawhiao and Rewi Maniapoto, Donald McLean and George Grey – negotiated the role of the King and the Queen, of Maori and Pakeha, in New Zealand.
Stephen King Country
Title | Stephen King Country PDF eBook |
Author | George W. Beahm |
Publisher | Running Press Book Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Authors, American |
ISBN | 9780762404568 |
Introduction: The Making of a King -- The Early Years -- The Seventies: Publish or Perish -- The Eighties: The King of Horror -- The Nineties- Upping the Ante -- Chapter 1: Maine Born and Bred -- Durham -- Lisbon Falls -- Hermon -- North Windham -- Bridgton -- Orrington -- The University of Maine at Orono -- Old Town -- Chapter 2: Bangor - Stephen's Kingdome -- The William Arnold House -- The Shawn Trevor Mansfield Baseball Complex -- WZON -- Stephen King's Office -- Philtrum Press -- Betts Bookstore -- The Bangor Public Library -- The Bangor Auditorium -- The Hoyt's Cinema -- The Bangor International Airport -- Chapter 3: Charity Begins at Home-The King's Philanthropy -- Chapter 4: Fictional Maine Haunts -- Jerusalem's Lot -- Haven -- Derry -- Castle Rock -- Chapter 5: Terra Incognita-The Road West -- Estes Park, Colorado -- Gatlin Nebraska -- Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon -- Desperation, Nevada -- Chapter 6: Silver Screams: Making Movies in Stephen King's Maine.
The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand
Title | The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Kerry-Nicholls |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2022-09-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
The following book is a travel guide to New Zealand, written by James Henry-Kerry Nicholls. He explored the terrains of the country quite extensively, from the southern portion, where the Whanganui River passes through it in a long winding course to the sea; the west, where the Mokau River and its tributaries flow from its central region to the coast; the north, where the Waipa Puniu and various other streams, having their sources in the Titiraupenga and Rangitoto Mountains, wind through it to the Waikato River; and the southeast, where the snow-clad heights of Tongariro and Ruapehu pour down their rapid waters in a perfect network of creeks and rivers.
The King Country: Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through MaorilandThe King Country: Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland
Title | The King Country: Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through MaorilandThe King Country: Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland PDF eBook |
Author | James Henry Kerry-Nicholls |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465611053 |
IN publishing this record of travel, I have deemed it advisable to arrange my narrative under four principal divisions. In the introductory portion I refer to the leading physical features of that part of the North Island of New Zealand known as the King Country, relate the leading incidents connected with its history, describe the condition of the native race, and explain the object with which my journey was undertaken. The succeeding chapters deal with my visit to the Maori King when presenting my credentials from Sir George Grey at the tribal gathering held at Whatiwhatihoe in October, 1882. The description of the Lake Country includes my route from Tauranga, on the East Coast, to Wairakei, and which led me through the marvellously interesting region familiarly termed the Wonderland of New Zealand, while in the pages embracing my explorations in the King Country I record events as they occurred from day to day over a lengthy journey which was delightful on account of its novelty and variety, and exciting by reason of the difficulties, both as regards natural obstacles inseparable from the exploration of an unknown region under the unfavourable conditions by which I was constrained to carry it out, and the deep-rooted jealousy of the native race against the intrusion of Europeans into a portion of the island which is considered by them to be exclusively Maori territory. When it is considered that in company only with my interpreter, and with but three horses—ultimately reduced to two—and with what scant provisions we could carry, I accomplished considerably over 600 miles of travel, discovered many new rivers and streams, penetrated almost inaccessible regions of mountainous forest, found extensive areas of open plains suitable for European settlement, traced the sources of three of the principal rivers of the colony, examined the unknown shores of its largest lake, ascended one of the highest mountains of the southern hemisphere, experienced degrees of temperature varying from 80° in the shade to 12° below freezing-point, and successfully traversed from South to North, through its entire length, a territory with an area of 10,000 square miles, and which had been from the early history of the colony rigorously closed to Europeans by the hostility of the native tribes, it may be readily seen that the explorations, by their varied nature, disclose many important facts hitherto unknown concerning a vast and beautiful portion of New Zealand; and while they cannot fail to prove of practical utility to the colony, they will, I venture to think, be a welcome addition to geographical science. The map appended to this work may be said to form the most complete chart of the interior of the North Island as yet published. Up to the present time the extensive territory embraced by the King Country has, owing to the obstruction of the natives, never been surveyed, and consequently many of its remarkable physical features have remained unknown, the existing maps of this part of the colony being mere outlines. As, therefore, considerably more than half of the country traversed was through a region which was, to all intents and purposes, a terra incognita from the commencement of my journey, I adopted a system of barometrical measurements and topographical observations, and thus secured a supply of valuable material, which I mapped out from day to day, while the names of mountains, rivers, valleys, and lakes were obtained from the natives by the skilful assistance of my interpreter, who was at all times unceasing in his endeavours to carry out this part of the work with accuracy.
In the King's Country
Title | In the King's Country PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda M. Douglas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
In the King's Country (Classic Reprint)
Title | In the King's Country (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda M. Douglas |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2017-10-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780266197102 |
Excerpt from In the King's Country Just as Miss Eastwood had finished her sen tence, Stacy had dropped into the same attitude, hands and all, Copying the half-plaintive tone so closely that the others laughed; and, looking at her, Sabrina laughed also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.