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Summary: The story of Katarina, a young Maori mother in the 1860s. Katarina's journey from Waikato to Otago to join her Scottish husband, gives an insight into the conflicts between the old Maori ways and the Pakeha pioneers, the Land Wars and the gold rush in Gabriel's Gully, Otago. Based on the real life of Katarina (Catherine) McKay, Gavin Bishop's great-aunt New Zealand author Published simultaneously in English First published: 1990