Rangatira
Publisher: Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780143565758
Subjects: New zealand, fiction; Fiction, historical
Description: "Based on a true story. Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the famed Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern rangatira. As he sits for Lindauer, Paratene retreats deeper and deeper into the past, from the triumphs in London and their meetings with royalty to the disintegration of the visit into poverty, mistrust, and humiliation." --Back cover.