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Title

Cannibal Jack : the life & times of Jacky Marmon, a Pākehā-Māori / Trevor Bentley.

Author

Bentley, Trevor.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2010.

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Description

272 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngāpuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hika's great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hika's personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Heke's Flagstaff War of 1845. In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.

Subject

• Marmon, John, 1800?-1880
• Pioneers > Far North District > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > Far North District
• Ngā Puhi (New Zealand people) > History
• Kōrero nehe
• New Zealand > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Star 'autobiographies' -- 1. Sailor, 1805-1917 -- g2. Gun trader, 1817-1820 -- 3. Tohunga Pākehā, 1820 -- 4. War tohunga, 1821 -- 5. Eyewitness and convict, 1821-23 -- 6. Pākehā-Māori, 1823-1830 -- 7. Landowner, hotelier and renegade, 1830-1840 -- 8. Sawyer, soldier and recluse, 1840-1880 -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9780143203827 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010444386

OCLC

• 650022838
• SCSB-11158322

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library