Tangweera Life And Adventures Among Gentle Savages by C. Napier Bell.

Publisher: Edward Arnold 1899, First Edition.

Good hardback. White cloth boards are heavily marked. Some rubbing and bumping to edges. No inscriptions, pages have rough cut edges, some light foxing. The 7 plates are present but the frontispiece is missing.

'Tangweera is Bell's autobiographical account of his boyhood experiences. Rich in ethnological detail, the book records an idyllic life of hunting, fishing and trading. Bell describes the social customs and beliefs of the various Indian peoples he knew, as well as the relations among the coastal Miskito, the black Creole population, and the Tribes of the interior- the latter a subject of continuous importance. Although Bell shared common 19th century Ideas about the inferiority of "Savage Races", his affection for the Miskito people and his love of their land fill Tangweera. Bell (brother of Gustavus von Tempsky) left England for New Zealand in 1871 and worked as an engineer for James Brogden and Sons Railway works in various parts of the country in the early 1870's. He would live in New Zealand for much of the rest of his life and contribute to a great range of infrastructural services vital to the country's development'

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