Cannibal Jack

In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. - Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngäpuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hikas great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hikas personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Hekes Flagstaff War of 1845. - In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmons life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmons own - not always reliable - personal accounts.