Alison Jones

This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha—and other New Zealanders—curious about their sense of identity and about...

In early 1817, Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders, and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England, and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought...