Amassing Treasures for All Times
Subtitle: Sir George Grey And His Libraries
Publisher: Univ of Otago Pr
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781877372216
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900; Biography: general; c 1800 to c 1900; Books; Reference; Biography & Autobiography; Biography; Book collectors; Colonial administrators; Governors; Great Britain; New Zealand; Biography/Autobiography
Description: Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Less well-known of Grey is that he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artefacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed. This study, written by a former librarian of the Auckland Grey Collection, sheds desperately needed light on the genius and magnanimity of an increasingly controversial figure, demonstrating the complex humanity underlying his apparent remoteness. It is the first study on Grey of its kind.