The Brown Frontier

The author was a journalist and later historian, with a number of fine histories to his credit. "The Brown Frontier" is a collection of 13 "stories and studies" covering the period from 1806 to 1877, a time when hostilities beween Maori and the early European arrivals on NZ shores. inter-tribal conflict, and later hostilities betten the Maori and European settlers and troops made Aotearoa a place of danger,and death. Territorially, his chapters are set in the North Island, from the Far North to the Taupo area. A number are located in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, where Vennell worked as a journalist, while also pursuing his historical research. Given the anger and violence of the time under study, many of the stories have elements of violence, revenge and, abduction as well as of courage, loyalty and mercy. Vennell had great skill of wordsmanship, bringing immediacy and objectivity to each of these studies .First edition from Reed 1967 190 pages including sources, glossary, index 21 b/w illustrations, mainly from contempory art, one map plus e/paper maps, one intext drawing. Deep red hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+, faint crease across lower corner preliminary pages, text block otherwise excellent, no inscriptions. Colour art/pictorial DJ is VG with few chips.…