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Boundary: A Novel of Colonial New Zealand's Founding Deception
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9780473436216
Publisher: Mellester Press
Published: Aug 1 2018
Pages: 410
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Wellington, 1839. A planned paradise. A brutal reality.
In 1839, the Tory set sail for New Zealand, carrying an ambitious blueprint for a new empire. Yet behind the New Zealand Company's noble rhetoric lay a desperate race to claim a nation before Queen Victoria's government could intervene.
Through the eyes of Andrew and Eleanor Stewart, a newly married couple indentured to the New Zealand Company, Boundary plunges readers into the brutal reality of the Te Awaiti whaling station-and into Britannia, a city planned in England and free from the ills of British society. On this newest frontier, men like the opportunistic Dicky Barrett traded in survival and secrets. This is not the sanitised history of colonial 'civilisation'. It is a raw account of the high-stakes negotiations between the New Zealand Company and powerful Māori leaders, Chief Te Wharepouri and Chief Te Rauparaha, who fought to protect their people from the Wakefield brothers, intent on implementing their flawed concept of Systemic Colonisation in a fledgling nation.
In this authentic New Zealand colonial saga, Paul W. Feenstra exposes the deception and grit behind Wellington's founding. Boundary is a story of early New Zealand settlement, where every boundary is a battleground and every deal is a deception. The true cost of a new beginning is written in blood.
Based on original documents discovered in the New Zealand National Archives, Boundary exposes a colonial history considerably different from what has been traditionally taught.
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