Bruce AnsleyBruce Ansley

Bruce Ansley is the author of Wild Journeys, a compelling roadtrip of sorts, published by HarperCollins in November 2018. He is also the author of nine other works of non-fiction. He worked for the New Zealand Listener for more than two decades and lives on Waiheke Island. Bruce was born in Christchurch in 1944.

The long, doomed march of Te Puoho, New Zealand’s would-be Genghis Khan

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Author Bruce Ansley follows in the footsteps of Te Puoho, who set off on an epic, 1500-kilometre march with his war party in 1836, intent on destroying an entire people – Ngāi Tahu. I once read a piece by archaeologist Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu), who was then just a budding academic. It was like discovering … Read more