In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deepconflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coastand at the Chathams, Volume One followsthe tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the NorthernWars; it reveals the web of Te Rauparaha's influence radiating out from Kapitito Port Nicholson and across Cook Strait to the Wairau; it takes us inside thebarracks and ramparts of the colony's new towns; and concludes as the brewing unrestaround Waitara in Taranaki explodes into war. Through the maps, we meetthe people: Hone Heke and FitzRoy, Te Rangitake and Pratt, warriors and missionaries; and we go where they went:from the flagpole at Kororareka to Kawiti's pa at Ruapekapeka, up the HuttRiver to Boulcott's farm, across Taranaki from Waitara to Kaitake pa. Throughboth tangata and whenua we understand the conflicts and their consequencesanew. Based on thirty years of research, the Atlas of the NewZealand Wars reveals acomplex series of challenges and misunderstandings, skirmishes and negotiations,battles and wars that have profoundly shaped the lives of Maori and Pakeha onthese islands ever since.
