The Good Citizen: Amazing Story Of Tom Ryan

By Denis Dwyer

The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far ends of the earth: New Zealand. He went on to score the first points for the first All Blacks rugby team and have a huge influence on the development of tourism services in Taupo. He became a distinguished artist, creating rare sketches of the controversial Maori warrior Te Kooti, and he married the daughter of a Maori chief. He won one of the first inter-colonial yachting contests and became director of a mining company. The Good Citizen paints a vivid and intimate portrait of early colonial New Zealand and the people who made up its society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186966504X
• ISBN13: 9781869665043
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: White Cloud Books
• Length: 208 Pages