Passages: an Immigrant Family in New Zealand

Publisher Marketing: Every land is a land of immigrants. From the time when their ancestors began walking out of Africa some 50-80,000 years ago, humans have spread over the surface of the globe, at times populating virgin lands, at others displacing former inhabitants by pressure of numbers or by conquest. The push to populate new lands has at times been driven by pressures operating in the former homeland, often propelled by economic imperatives or by religious or political intolerance, but at others it has been driven pure colonizing zeal. In greater or lesser degree, all these factors entered into the peopling of New Zealand. This, then, is an account of immigration to New Zealand during the nineteenth century by "ordinary people" who sailed, often under dreadful conditions, half way around the globe drawn by the promise of land. Built around the fortunes of the author's family and set within the context of the developments that were occurring at the time in the parts of New Zealand to which they came, it not only tells the story of where the immigrants settled but also the nature of the organized schemes whereby they were recruited and given assisted passage from their home countries to New Zealand. Contributor Bio:  Jones, Edward At age 29, Edward had three KFC franchises and had a financial worth in excess of a million dollars. Seven years later, he had lost his house, his car, his wife, and was bankrupt in his business. In seeing the truth of his life (his programmed conditioning), the failure in all aspects of his life and speaking it, Edward experienced a transformation. The old Edward died and was born into a new consciousness and a new way of living. That transformational experience of seeing the truth in his life showed Edward the nature of reality and the possibility of a new consciousness, free of suffering and violence. Within his books Edward tells the reader what he did and what you can do to bring forth a new consciousness for you and prepare a world safe for your children and future generations. He insists what he did is not a process, but that it can be started as a process resulting in a manner of living which can remove the virus of violence from our current conditioned, programmed existence. If transformation could manifest and reach a critical mass, an event would result that would shake the world from its self-destructive path.