Thursday, December 15, 2016

'Ata in the Listener

Sally Blundell's generous and lengthy Listener article about The Stolen Island brings the story of 'Ata and of New Zealand's part in the Pacific slave trade to a nationwide audience.

Like Radio New Zealand's website, the Listener has reproduced the eerie photograph of slaver Thomas McGrath that I acquired from McGrath's great-great-great grandson.





6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This book is rubbish. Tongans don't believe it. This man has made most of it up. He is a bad researcher and is an internet troll. Others have suffered because they talked to him and if he writes about you will never fix his mistakes. We are sorry for the grandsons of the horrible Maoris from the Chathams who were meant to have done this. this book will keep the lies about your ancestors forever around with no one to tell the true story. This book is a big bunch of lies.

7:39 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Boasting about yourself again? your book has 4 pages on the so-called slave raid and the rest is about you and how wonderful you are to have invented this stuff.

7:42 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you gave the photo of mcgrath to the listener without the permission of his grandson. He stopped communicating with you when he realised what you were up to and what a fibber you are. You tell us this yourself in your brochure on this fictional slave trade. The Listener should be ashamed to publish this material that is a load of rubbish. You have no right to give these photos to others.

3:42 pm  
Anonymous Scott Hamilton said...

'the so-called slave raid'

It was particularly cunning of me to build a time machine, travel back to 1863, impersonate nine ex-sailors of the Grecian, and tell my story to the newspapers of Australasia, wasn't it, anon?

No wonder I managed to con not only The Listener into publishing its article but the late Henry Maude into writing Slavers in Paradise, huh?



7:21 pm  
Blogger Richard said...

Good interview in the Listener Scott. The book is a good read and revealing also.

Notice how those who criticize haven't got the guts to write their own names?

11:19 pm  
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