History

Old New Zealand

by F. E. Maning

F. E. Maning came to the Hokianga in 1833, married into a Māori family and lived as a Pākehā Māori, a European who had made his life in the Māori world. This book, published in 1863 under the name “A Pakeha Maori”, looks back on those early days with humour and some exaggeration. It is a teller’s book rather than a historian’s, and a classic.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 25 min

Where to find it

The New Zealand Room, at the Antipodes

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #33342. In the public domain in the United States.