The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Te Ra Moriarty AND THE PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

AND THE PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019

Despite every outward sign of success

and of the natural world

Galapagos and Hocus Pocus

updated and revised for modern readers

The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Te Ra Moriarty AND THE PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONFirst published in 1986, James Belichs groundbreaking book and the television series based upon it transformed New Zealanders understanding of the bitter and bloody struggles between Mori and Pkeh in the nineteenth century. Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Mori, and the inability of the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict to acknowledge those qualities, Belichs account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different