Alex, Bram, and Hugh Drydon were identical triplets orphaned by the English King's hangman in 1790. Soon afterwards, Bram stole coins to feed his brothers but was caught. A magistrate deported him to the Paramatta convict colony in New Holland. Alex and Hugh were placed in a workhouse but separated when Alex became a drummer boy in the British Army. Alex served as boy and man, retiring as a rifleman following the Battle of Waterloo.

In 1821 Alex sailed to Port Jackson in New Holland to search for Bram. At the penal colony he learned Bram had taken part in a mutiny aboard a ship named the Venus in 1806. The Venus then sailed beyond the King's Empire to the cannibal islands of New Zealand. Alex secured passage aboard the Westmoreland, bound for New Zealand. Onboard, a Maori war chief named Hongi Hika mistook Alex for Bram. The warrior accused Alex of piracy. Alex wrote of the incident to his Brother, Hugh, who lived a missionary life in India. More letters followed, written from fortified Maori villages, missionary settlements, and great battlefields of the Maori musket wars. Gathered together they tell the story of a soldier's fight to survive in a fierce land of warriors and war.

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