A Deserter's Adventures
Subtitle: The Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli
Contributors: John Crockett (Translator)
Publisher: Univ of Otago Pr
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781877276118
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian mission & evangelism; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Religious; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; New Zealand
Description: One of the first Benedictine monks to be sent to New Zealand, Dom Felice Vaggioli arrived in 1879 and returned home in 1887, having worked in Gisborne, Auckland and the Coromandel. The New Zealand section of his autobiography is published in this book, with an introductory essay by Rory Sweetman.