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This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone" (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's "A Voyage Round the World" (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization.
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 There is also a selection of Maning's unpublished letters.
This edition reproduces the text of the orginal 1984 edition, in which Ada Pryer wrote about the early years of her husband's administration of the British North Borneo Company. Her memoir acts as both a travel narrative and provides an understanding of the British takeover of North Borneo.
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