Social historian Terri Kessell has a special interest in the early contact period of Maori and European in the late 18th early 19th century.
In the fictionalised true story BURNING THE EVIDENCE we see Ann Morley , once a convict but now a woman of means, journeying from Australia back to England via New Zealand on the sailing ship Boyd .
BURNING THE EVIDENCE tells the extraordinary story of what happened to the Boyd and to Ann Morley in the Bay of Islands, which becomes the most dangerous place on earth where no ship dare call.
2010 is the 200th anniversary of the burning of the Boyd,the subject of Burning the Evidence by Terri Kessel and information can be obtained from the following sites: Boyd Remembrance Info, More Information