Jonathan Adams joins us from Copenhagen to talk about his memoirs of Phillip Tapsell (1790-1873), one of the earliest Pakeha-Maori traders and with over 3000 descendants in New Zealand. Born Hans Felk in Copenhagen, Denmark, he took to the oceans as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.
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