For much of my juvenile life in England, New Zealand existed only as a kind of mysterious dual oceanic blob on our household globe. At my boarding school I do recall clearly however that my oddly omnivorous reading included a book on the 19th century Maori wars. From that I remember especially a vast solitary trek being undertaken by the sole British military survivor of an inland skirmish which apparently went horribly wrong.
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