3805X1 First American Edition. W. W. Norton & Co., NY: 1987. 384 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. A powerful and moving novel of the early days of colonial New Zealand. A shrewd mission-educated Maori, Coates/Kooti, perceived as a thorn in the colonial flesh, escapes imprisonment and returns to Poverty Bay with a small band of followers. Kooti becomes the ruthless leader of a considerable native army, his Bible studies leading him to see himself and his people as latter-day Israelites. ISBN: 0393024318 $10.55USD
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