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Migrations
Journeys in time and place

Rod Edmond
This is my kind of book, and a book for any New Zealander descended from European immigrants, particularly from Britain. In a narrative that is learned, atmospheric and often gripping, Rod Edmond reects on identity and migration with the penetrating insight of a still tenderly attached exile. Fleur Adcock
In Migrations Rod Edmond traces the journeys of his Scottish forebears as they separately made their way to New Zealand. The migration story begins with Charles Murray leaving Aberdeenshire in 1884 to become a missionary on the island of Ambrym. On the other side of Scotland, Catherine McLeod and her family had already abandoned their small coastal croft and sailed for Tasmania. Encounters in Scottish and Pacific villages, a reconciliation ceremony, visits to country churches in New Zealand, and the shock of a citys history transformed by earthquake all are woven into an exploration of migration, of what it is and what it means in our lives. Evocations of place are quietly infused with an understanding of the past, subtly shifting perceptions of identity for current generations. RRP$39.99 240 170 mm 248 pages Maps and family trees ISBN 9781927131466 ISTC A02201200000222D6 Published May 2013

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Journeys in time and place aptly sums up this charming narrative a mix of travel writing and history. This is history from below family history seen through the lens of an international post-colonial scholar. It takes you from the Scottish highlands through the Pacific, to towns throughout New Zealand. A book for general New Zealand readers and for specialists in genealogy, church history and family history.

A poignant meditation on the significant but largely forgotten story of missionary enterprise, and an eloquent commentary on the back-andforth lives so many people have led, and continue to lead, between Britain and New Zealand. Nicholas Thomas, Trinity College, Cambridge

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Author information
Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Rod Edmond has published in the fields of Victorian and postcolonial writing, and in the history and literature of empire. In 1998 he was the joint winner of the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for Imperial History for Representing the South Pacific: 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 the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.

Contents
List of Maps Acknowledgements Editorial Note Family Trees 1 Introduction 2 St Fergus 3 Aberdeen 4 Ullapool 5 Ambrym I 6 Ambrym II 7 Tasmania 8 New Zealand 9 Afterlives 10 Returning Sources Index