Old New Zealand: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old New Zealand, credited to Frederick Edward Maning, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning. Read in English by Gnomesb Introduction to Old New Zealand Philip Steer Victoria University February 2004 Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 5 July 1811 or 1812 and immigrated to Tasmania with his family in 1823. He lived in New Zealand from 1833 until 1882, when ill health forced him to seek medical care in England. He died in London on 25 July 1883, but was buried in New Zealand later that year. His Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863) is one of the few pre-twentieth century New Zealand literary texts that have not descended into obscurity with passing time. Historian Peter Gibbons describes it as perhaps one of the best known and most widely read of all works on early New Zealand and it has often been reprinted. Summary by Philip Steer Full introduction by Philip Steer

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old New Zealand
• Author credits: Frederick Edward Maning
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:55:41

Catalogue topics

• new zealand
• pakeha maori
• general and eastern hemisphere
• history of oceania

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:04
2. 01 - Chapter I. — 24:06
3. 02 - Chapter II. — 19:51
4. 03 - Chapter III. — 55:29
5. 04 - Chapter IV. — 14:13
6. 05 - Chapter V. — 12:25
7. 06 - Chapter VI. — 25:22
8. 07 - Chapter VII. — 20:33
9. 08 - Chapter VIII. — 47:03
10. 09 - Chapter IX. — 11:21
11. 10 - Chapter X. — 13:14
12. 11 - Chapter XI. — 14:15
13. 12 - Chapter XII. — 6:01
14. 13 - Chapter XIII. — 47:41
15. 14 - Chapter XIV. — 18:17
16. 15 - Chapter XV. — 13:46
17. 16 - Glossary — 10:00

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