The Hungry Heart - Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells

This is a second-hand copy of the book The Hungry Heart - Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells.

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9781869794743
Format: Hardback
Pages: 467
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonization.

"I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist, and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonization, maintaining his dissident voice throughout his career. Peter Wells refreshes our vision of this awkward, highly talented man, who lost his family after the church expelled him for fathering a child by a Maori woman. Rejected by the church, family, and friends, Colenso made botany his home and lovingly described the plants of New Zealand. At the same time, he wrote a series of remarkable pamphlets that open up our past. 'I write for future generations,' he noted in 1881. The time has come to welcome Colenso back.