Research Catalog

Title

Singer in a songless land : a life of Edward Tregear, 1846-1931 / K.R. Howe.

Author

Howe, K. R.

Publication

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1991.

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Details

Subject

• Tregear, Edward, 1846-1931
• Intellectuals > New Zealand > Biography
• Politicians > New Zealand > Biography
• Social reformers > New Zealand > Biography
• Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography
• Linguists > New Zealand > Biography
• New Zealand > Intellectual life > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

1869400585

LCCN

^^^92175066^

OCLC

• 28852659
• SCSB-11055472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library