Samuel Marsden: Altar Ego by Richard Quinn

Rev. Samuel Marsden -'the flogging parson' - is reviled in Australia's colonial story yet is revered in New Zealand and indeed accorded saintly status. Quinn examines this extraordinary divergence of views between the two countries, drawing on a wealth of material on the man, the times and places to explain them. Finding wide gaps in the research on Marsden's role and influence, he argues that his staus in New Zealand rests on untested assumptions of goodness, piety and disinterest"-- Book jacket. This 2008 Dunmore Publishing Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9781877399350 SKU: 1583542 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1583542
Location: Biography