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Jerningham
Paperback Edition: 1
Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nephew. As trouble brews between settlers, government, missionaries and Maori over land and souls and rights, Jerningham is at the heart of it, blurring the line between friendship and exploitation and spinning the hapless Lugg in his wake. Alive with historical detail, Jerningham tells a vivid and important story of Wellington's colonial beginnings and of a charismatic young man's rise and inevitable fall.
Publisher : The Cuba Press
Pages : 398
Publication date : 2020-06-15
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, Contemporary, Historical Fiction