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Murder on the Maungatapu

SKU: 9781927145746
$45.00
  • Author:
    MARTIN Wayne
  • ISBN:
    9781927145746
  • Publication Date:
    June 2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    287
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Canterbury University Press
  • Country of Publication:
Murder on the Maungatapu
Murder on the Maungatapu

Murder on the Maungatapu

SKU: 9781927145746
$45.00
  • Author:
    MARTIN Wayne
  • ISBN:
    9781927145746
  • Publication Date:
    June 2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    287
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Canterbury University Press
  • Country of Publication:

Description

In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write. His life, he knew, was beyond salvation but words were the last weapon at his disposal to consign his mortal enemy, gang turncoat Joseph Sullivan, to the gallows. The blood-soaked confession that followed was described by Mark Twain as without its peer in the literature of murder.

Five bodies had been recovered from Maungatapu Mountain in the upper South Island, and another from the West Coast. But who had done the killing, and how many other victims were there? What had brought the ruthless Burgess Gang to this point?

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including little-known original accounts by Sullivan, Murder on the Maungatapu tells the fascinating full story of a dark episode in this countrys history.

This is a superbly written tale of blood and gold, of betrayal and vengeance, and it draws some startling conclusions about New Zealands crime of the nineteenth century.

Featured in the 13 June 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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  • In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write. His life, he knew, was beyond salvation but words were the last weapon at his disposal to consign his mortal enemy, gang turncoat Joseph Sullivan, to the gallows. The blood-soaked confession that followed was described by Mark Twain as without its peer in the literature of murder.

    Five bodies had been recovered from Maungatapu Mountain in the upper South Island, and another from the West Coast. But who had done the killing, and how many other victims were there? What had brought the ruthless Burgess Gang to this point?

    Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including little-known original accounts by Sullivan, Murder on the Maungatapu tells the fascinating full story of a dark episode in this countrys history.

    This is a superbly written tale of blood and gold, of betrayal and vengeance, and it draws some startling conclusions about New Zealands crime of the nineteenth century.

    Featured in the 13 June 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

In the winter of 1866 New Zealands most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write. His life, he knew, was beyond salvation but words were the last weapon at his disposal to consign his mortal enemy, gang turncoat Joseph Sullivan, to the gallows. The blood-soaked confession that followed was described by Mark Twain as without its peer in the literature of murder.

Five bodies had been recovered from Maungatapu Mountain in the upper South Island, and another from the West Coast. But who had done the killing, and how many other victims were there? What had brought the ruthless Burgess Gang to this point?

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including little-known original accounts by Sullivan, Murder on the Maungatapu tells the fascinating full story of a dark episode in this countrys history.

This is a superbly written tale of blood and gold, of betrayal and vengeance, and it draws some startling conclusions about New Zealands crime of the nineteenth century.

Featured in the 13 June 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

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