First New Zealand Christmases
Maker / Kaihanga
Alfred Reed (b.1875, d.1975)
Alexander Reed (b.1908, d.1979)
Production date / Rā mahi
1933
Description / Taipitopito kōrero
24 page book titled "First New Zealand Christmases". The cover also reads "Tasman, Cook, Marsden" and includes an image with the caption "Mānuka Leptospermum Scoparium". This book is a record of "the romantic story of Samuel Marsden landing at the semi-tropical Bay of Islands on that Christmas Day of 1814, and preaching the first sermon on New Zealand soil". Includes a facsimile of a page that Marsden would have used as part of a sermon
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Alexander Reed (b.1908, d.1979): Author