Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Logan Campbell's Auckland; 2. How Ngati Whatua Became the Tangata Whenua of Tamaki; 3. The Tree on One Tree Hill; 4. 'Affairs of Honour in the Olden Time'; 5. Henry Falwasser and the Mangle Press; 6. 'Poor Dudley Sinclair'; 7. The Voyage of the Jane Gifford; 8. 'It was something different, something / Nobody counted on'; 9. Auckland's Lost Boys; 10. Redcoat and Bluejacket; 11. The Orpheus Disaster; 12. The Dilworth Inheritance; 13. Anthony Trollope in Auckland
14. A Victorian Friendship and Auckland's First School of Art15. How Rugby Came Ashore and Found its Way to Eden Park; 16. 'We Were Robbed!'; 17. Campbell and Auckland Today; Further Reading; Index; Back Cover
Summary
From the tale of One Tree Hill and a mysterious suicide to the wreck of the HMS Orpheus, the personalities, feuds, and dramas of 19th-century Auckland are brilliantly brought to life in this charming collection. Drawn from the author's encyclopedic knowledge of Auckland, each of the 15 tales illustrates what daily life was like in the young colony and combine to paint a vivid portrait of the city's social and cultural history
