Converging worlds : Sāmoa and Europe clash (1883-1909) -- Kaiser or king? : German Empire, war and its brutal aftermath (1910-1920) -- The "troublesome garden of eden" (1920-1923) -- A new era? (1923-1925) -- Before the storm (1926) -- The storm (1926-1927) -- "He is not a Sāmoan" (1927) -- Exile and the road to Geneva -- (1928) "If there is any justice at all" (1928) -- Slander, abuse and calumny (1929) -- Sāmoa's Gethsemane (1930) -- Breaking Mr Nelson in the Great Depression (1931-1932) -- Return to Sāmoa, trial and exile (1933-1934) -- Sāmoa evermore (1935-1944).
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'Tautai' is the story of a man who came from the edge of a mighty empire and then challenged it at its very heart. This biography of Ta'isi O.F. Nelson chronicles the life of a man described as the 'archenemy' of New Zealand and its greater whole, the British Empire. He was Samoa's richest man who used his wealth and unique international access to further the Samoan cause and was financially ruined in the process.