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RRP$39.99•

240 × 170 mm•

248 pagesMaps and family trees • ISBN 9781927131466

ISTC A02201200000222D6 • Published May 2013

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MigrationsJourneys in time and place

Rod Edmond

This is my kind of book, and a book for any NewZealander descended from European immigrants,

 particularly from Britain. In a narrative thatis learned, atmospheric and often gripping, RodEdmond reflects on identity and migrationwith the penetrating insight of a still tenderlyattached exile.

Fleur Adcock 

In Migrations Rod Edmond traces the journeysof his Scottish forebears as they separatelymade their way to New Zealand. The migrationstory begins with Charles Murray leavingAberdeenshire in 1884 to become a missionaryon the island of Ambrym. On the other side of Scotland, Catherine McLeod and her family hadalready abandoned their small coastal croft andsailed for Tasmania.

Encounters in Scottish and Pacic villages,a reconciliation ceremony, visits to countrychurches in New Zealand, and the shock of acity’s history transformed by earthquake – allare woven into an exploration of ‘migration’,of what it is and what it means in our lives.Evocations of place are quietly infused withan understanding of the past, subtly shiftingperceptions of identity for current generations.

A poignant meditation on the signicant but

largely forgotten story of missionary enterprise,and an eloquent commentary on the back-and-

 forth lives so many people have led, and continueto lead, between Britain and New Zealand. 

Nicholas Thomas,Trinity College, Cambridge

Distributor: HarperCollins, P O Box 1, Shortland Street, Auckland

Contact: customerservices@harpercollins.co.nz

Sales Manager: matthew.simpson@harpercollins.co.nz

Key sales points

•  Journeys in time and place aptly sums upthis charming narrative – a mix of travelwriting and history.

• This is ‘history from below’ – family history

seen through the lens of an internationalpost-colonial scholar.

• It takes you from the Scottish highlandsthrough the Pacic, to towns throughoutNew Zealand.

• A book for general New Zealand readers andfor specialists in genealogy, church historyand family history.

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Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Editorial Note

Family Trees

1 Introduction

2 St Fergus

3 Aberdeen

4 Ullapool5 Ambrym I

6 Ambrym II

7 Tasmania

8 New Zealand

9 Afterlives

10 Returning

Sources

Index

Author information

Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Rod Edmond haspublished in the elds of Victorian and postcolonial writing, and in the history andliterature of empire. In 1998 he was the joint winner of the Trevor Reese MemorialPrize for Imperial History for Representing the South Pacic: Colonial Discourse from

Cook to Gauguin.

Rod Edmond will be in New Zealand in May 2013 for the launch of  Migrations.Events will be held in Wellington, Carterton, Palmerston North, Dunedin, and at theAuckland Writers & Readers Festival.