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123RF Writer and essayist Talia Marshall. This Summer my reading is not really for pleasure. Although, I recently stayed in an amazing bach in Aotea where Te Rauparaha had fought against Northern invaders before making his way south from Kawhia on his Musket War heke. Alexander Turnbull Library Te Rauparaha. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The caretaker of the bach said Te Rauparaha is known as a terrorist in these parts as he eyed the old pā to my left. I am meant to be reviewing Te Rauparaha’s son Tamihana’s slickly produced version of his life, A Record Of The Life Of The Great Te Rauparaha (AUP, edited by another descendant, Ross Calman). ....