George vason (29 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. pp.440-455. 21.5cm. Newly bound in boards with cloth spine and paper title label on upper cover. The book was by George Vason, the LMS MIssionary, who lived among the Tongans for some four years, having 'renounced his office', and married a chief's daughter.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this delightful travelogue, George Vason offers a charming account of his years living on Tongataboo, one of the 'Friendly Islands' in the South Pacific. From the joys of island life to the challenges of building a life far from home, Vason's narrative is an engrossing and often humorous tale that will transport readers to a place of sunshine, adventure, and beauty.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Zustand: New. Title: An Authentic Narrative of four years residence at Tongataboo, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Sea, by - [G. Vason] who went thither in the Duff, under Captain Wilson, in 1796. With an appendix, by an eminent writer [T. Scott? Edited by S. .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this delightful travelogue, George Vason offers a charming account of his years living on Tongataboo, one of the 'Friendly Islands' in the South Pacific. From the joys of island life to the challenges of building a life far from home, Vason's narrative is an engrossing and often humorous tale that will transport readers to a place of sunshine, adventure, and beauty.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 12mo. pp. vii, [ix]-236; eng. frontis., title page engraved; very good in the original cloth, endpapers renewed with signs of armorial plate beneath the front pastedown, minor wear to extremities. "Vason's narrative first appeared in 1810 under the title An Authentic Narrative of Four Years' Residence at Tongataboo, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Sea . . . This later version contains the same narrative as the earlier versions, but in this 1840 version, Reverend Orange . has added a preface and a fifty-page essay on the South Sea Islands, telling of the shocking barbarity with which the missionaries at Tongatabu were treated (some were killed), and describing the reception of other missionaries at Tahiti and Samoa" (Hill).…

First edition, 8vo (212 x 125 mm), xv, [1], [17]-234, [2]pp., errata leaf at end, engraved frontispiece and engraved map stained, text age-toned with occasional foxing, cont. half-calf, later cloth reback, corners rubbed. This is an authentic account of the life of the missionary George Vason who was one of the first ten Christian missionaries to arrive in Tonga. He left the missionaries at Tonga and lived among the natives for four years. He began to dress and live as a Tongan, and married one of the native girls. He built up an estate and became a prosperous Tongan gentlemen until the beginning of the civil wars in 1799. He was tattooed, and looked and spoke like a Tongan. He escaped the wars on the ship, Royal Admiral, and returned to Nottingham where he died in 1838. He told his story to James Orange and only two versions have been printed, this one in 1810 and one in 1840. His description of Tonga at the end of the eighteenth century is important in that it precedes William Mariner's longer account published in 1817, but the two accounts give uniquely objective reports of Tonga before and during the civil war. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.306; Ferguson, 507b; Howgego, D37 and E9.…