The Fox Boy : The Story of an Abducted Child

ISBN-13: 9780747558057 / Angielski

Peter Walker

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Mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1769s. In 1869, after an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one more Maori boy, aged five, was captured. This little captive was to be adopted by the prime minister and educated to become a lawyer and an English gentleman. Photographed, just a few days after his kidnap wearing a fine English suit and boots, the boy stands beside a vase of flowers and a weighty book placed on an abony stand, looking as if he's seen a ghost.