Te Puea: A Life

Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as ''possibly the most influential woman in our political history'', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. ''I want the truth told and nothing but the truth,'' she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea''s tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and protégés. Wh...