The long white cloud: Ao Tea Roa

✍ Scribed by William Pember Reeves, Angus J. Harrop

• Publisher: Golden Press
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Long White Cloud: Ao Tea Roa Additional chapters by A. J. Harrop. New Zealand classic. Introduction by Sir James Hight, Litt. D. Comment by Bernard SHaw on Reeve and the Fabians. Though one of the parts of the earth best fitted for man New Zealand was probably about the last of such lands occupied by the human race. The first European to find it was a Dutch sea-captain who was looking for something else and who thought it a part of South America from which it is sundered by five thousand miles of ocean.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
INTRODUCTION BY SIR JAMES HIGHT
PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
A COMMENT BY BERNARD SHAW
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
POEM: NEW ZEALAND
PART ONE BY W. P. REEVES
CHAPTER I. The Long White Cloud (page 25)
CHAPTER II. The Maori (page 47)
CHAPTER III. The Maori and the Unseen (page 65)
CHAPTER IV. The Navigators (page 75)
CHAPTER V. No Man's Land (page 87)
CHAPTER VI. Mission Schooner and Whale Boat (page 98)
CHAPTER VII. The Muskets of Hongi (page 110)
CHAPTER VIII. "A Man-of-War Without Guns" (page 127)
CHAPTER IX. The Dreams of Gibbon Wakefield (page 136)
CHAPTER X. In the Caudine Forks (page 144)
CHAPTER XI. Through Weakness into War (page 155)
CHAPTER XII. Good Governor Grey (page 168)
CHAPTER XIII. The Pastoral Provinces (page 177)
CHAPTER XIV. Learning to Walk (page 189)
CHAPTER XV. Governor Browne's Bad Bargain (page 196)
CHAPTER XVI. Tupara Against Enfield (page 200)
CHAPTER XVII. The Fire in the Fern (page 211)
CHAPTER XVIII. Gold-Diggers and Gum-Diggers (page 227)
CHAPTER XIX. Vogel and the Public Works Policy (page 236)
CHAPTER XX. In Parliament (page 245)
CHAPTER XXI. Some Bones of Contention (page 258)
CHAPTER XXII. The End of the Oligarchy (page 270)
CHAPTER XXIII. The Eight Years' Tussle (page 281)
CHAPTER XXIV. "King Dick" (page 295)
CHAPTER XXV. The Experimental Laws (page 308)
PART TWO By A. J. HARROP
CHAPTER I. Farmers in Power (page 327)
CHAPTER II. Labour in Power (page 344)
CHAPTER III. Second World War (page 350)
CHPATER IV. In the Empire and the World (page 359)
CHAPTER V. Social and Economic Trends (page 363)
CHAPTER VI. The New Zealanders (page 367)
Appendix I: New Zealand Literature
Appendix II: Poem: The Passing of the Forest
Index