Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 5:46 pm
First
contact between Europeans and Māori was a haphazard affair
that often led to misunderstanding and conflict, but also
laid the basis for a nation. There at the outset was a man
who had remade himself from Danish origins into a
Pākehā-Māori.
Events in the Life of Phillip
Tapsell is a global series of adventures that features a
‘who’s who’ of the nineteenth century including
Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson and Hongi Hika, with
dramatic events such as the bombardment of Copenhagen, the
massacre on the Boyd and the recapture of the
Wellington.