Frederick Edward Maning (1811-83), trader, writer and Native Land Court judge, is best known for his much-reprinted book

Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times

(1863), by “A Pakeha Maori”, and to a lesser extent for his

History of the War in the North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845

(1862), ostensibly a translated account by an unnamed Māori chief who had been opposed yet sympathetic to Hone Heke.

History of the War in the North

has been acclaimed as “the first work of lasting literary value published in New Zealand” (Calder, p. 5), and the more substantial, although more uneven, work

Old New Zealand

may well be considered the second. As creative non-fiction, both were based upon unique experiences and observation, and employ a range of literary…

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