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Bentley, Trevor.

Cannibal Jack / Trevor Bentley. - Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2010. - 272 pages 24 cm.

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 Ngäpuhi 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 Maoritraces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.

ISBN: 9780143203827 0143203827

Subjects--Personal Names:
Marmon, John, 1800?-1880.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pioneers--New Zealand--Far North District--Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life--New Zealand--Far North District.
Ngā Puhi (New Zealand people)--History.
Ngā Puhi (New Zealand people)
Kōrero nehe.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand--History--19th century.

LC Class. No.: DU420.14.M37 / B468 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 993.01