A shaking of the land
Subtitle: William Cross and the origins of Christianity in Fiji
By: Andrew Thornley ; translated into Fijian by Tauga Vulaono = Na yavalati ni vanua : ko Wiliame Korosi kei na i tekitekivu ni Lotu Vakaristo e Viti / Andrew Thornley ; vakadewataka o Tauga Vulaono.
Contributors: Vulaono, Tauga.
Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Suva, Fiji
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9789820203747
Subjects: Cross, William, -- 1797-1842.; Methodists -- Fiji -- Biography.; Missionaries -- Fiji -- Biography.; Methodist Church -- Missions -- Fiji -- History -- 19th century.; Fiji -- Church history -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Na yavalati ni vanua; Wiliame Korosi kei na i Tekitekivu ni Lotu Vakaristo e Viti
Work titles: Na yavalati ni vanua :.
First sentence: The three hundred islands of Fiji lie in the South Pacific Ocean, spead out like speckles of paint randomly splashed across a huge canvas of blue water....
Description: This book traces the life of Methodist Missionary William Cross. Born in England in 1797, Cross was converted to Methodism as a young man and applied for missionary work. He served in Tonga for eight years.Losing his wife in a tragic drowning, Cross remarried in Sydney and then volunteered to lead the first Wesleyan mission to Fiji in 1835 along with David Cargill. In the next seven years until his death in 1842, Cross established Christian congregations in some of the most important Fijian chiefdoms. A particular focus of this book is the religious interaction between Fijian traditional beliefs and new Christian ideas. The book includes complete Fijian translation by Tauga Vulaono.
Notes: "Completes Thornley's and Vulaono's bi-lingual trilogy on the first forty years of Fiji Methodism.  The other books ... are The Inheritance of Hope (2000) and Exodus of the I Tankei (2002)"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-467) and index.

Parallel chapters in English and Fijian.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Disciple in the Islands: 1797-1831
pagenum: 17-91; label: 2
title: The Wilderness years: 1832-1835
pagenum: 92-145; label: 3
title: The Meeting of Religions: Lakeba: 1835-1837
pagenum: 146-229; label: 4
title: In the Eyes of Powerful Chiefs: 1838-1839
pagenum: 230-330; label: 5
title: Genesis: Christian Beginnings at Viwa and Bau,1839-1842
pagenum: 331-429; label: 6
title: "The Captain is Waiting and the Anchor Up": From Viwa to Somosomo, August-October 1842
pagenum: 430-451