Florence Keene By This We Conquer  - RARE COPY  - First Edition Signed by Author
About the Book:  
 “The title of the book ‘By this we Conquer’ is the motto on the O’Donnell Coat of Arms, one of Richard Davis ancestors.  The book is about the life and letter of the Irish Missionary Richard Davis ‘that stirring and industrious man, and dedicated pioneer of the Gospel. Reverend Richard Davis (18 January 1790 – 28 May 1863) was a New Zealand meteorologist, missionary and farmer. He made weather recordings in the northern North Island from 1839 to 1844, and 1849 to 1851, making them the oldest continuous land-based recordings in New Zealand. In 2019 they were inscribed into UNESCO's Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao documentary heritage register. Davis had associations with Sturminster Newton and  Piddletrenthide Dorset, England.”
 
Cover Image by Mike N. Ferris of line drawing of St John the Baptist Church, Waimate, New Zealand
 
Genre: Culture and Lifestyle, Biography 
Edition: First Edition Published 1974
Published:  New Zealand 
IBSN: Pre ISBSN
Size: 21.5x 15.5cm
Pages: 149 pages 
 
Contents – 24 Chapters
1 Richard Davis in England 
2 The Trip to New Zealand 
3 New Zealand at Last
4 Dangerous Times
5 The Mission Makes Progress 
6 Black Clouds over the Mission
7 The Problems of Students, Food and Printed Matter  
8 The Last Days of Hongi Hika 
9 Peace and War 
10 The Frist Inland Station 
11 The Family
12 Richard Davis, the Agriculturist 
13 Richard Davis, the Evangelist
14 Bishop Selwyn at Waimate
15 Appointment to Kaikohe
16 Return to Waimate 
17 Davis with Busby, Hobson and Grey
18 Hone, Heke and War 
19Battle of Ruapekapeka and its Aftermath 
20 Land
21 Disease and Remedies
22 Freak Weather
23 The Family and Davis’ Last Few Years
24 Looking Back 
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
 
 
CONDITION:
Covers: Beige card covers show signs of wear, bumping and scuffing. Wear to outer edges.  
Binding: Leaning
Spine: Fairly Good. The title on spine shows bumping and wear and tearing at the edges
Pages.  All pages complete. Pages are yellowing and good and strong 
Back Story and Biography.
“Florence Keene (nee Matthews) was born in Kaitaia and educated at the Kaitaia Primary School, Epsom Girls' Grammar School and Auckland Teachers' Training College.
She was a descendant of Reverend Joseph Matthews of Kaitaia.
She taught at Kaitaia, Kaeo, Victoria Valley and Onerahi schools.
Florence was also the secretary of Northland, the successful regional magazine.
Florence Keene published many books about Northland's people and places including stories about Māori mythology, folklore and history.
She married in 1936, and she and her husband John Oswald Keene raised a family of four children at Whangarei. John died in 1980 aged 69 years.
Florence died eighteen years later, in 1998. She was 89 years old.
Florence Keene is remembered as a remarkable historian and writer.”  Courtesy of Florence Myrtle Matthews Keene | Northland Room Digital Collections
 
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