The Greenstone Door by William Satchell audiobook.

Genre: history

In William Satchell's The Greenstone Door, an older Cedric Tregarthen looks back on a youth shaped by violence and belonging in mid-19th-century New Zealand. After his family is swept away in frontier conflict, Cedric is taken in by the trader Purcell and grows up under the protection of a powerful Maori community, sharing a wild, close-knit childhood with his foster sister Puhi-Huia and his fierce, complicated friend Rangiora. Deep in a hidden limestone cave, the children bind themselves to a vow of peace - the tatau pounamu, the greenstone door - a symbol meant to close the way to bloodshed forever. But as Cedric is sent to Auckland to be schooled in Pakeha society, the world widens and hardens: colonial politics tighten their grip, loyalties split along race and land, and war begins to press in on every relationship he values. Torn between the people who raised him, the culture he is expected to serve, and a growing love that ties him to the halls of power, Cedric must decide what honor, home, and peace can possibly mean when history itself is marching toward battle.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:26) Chapter 01

(00:28:42) Chapter 02

(00:56:20) Chapter 03

(01:35:45) Chapter 04

(02:10:20) Chapter 05

(02:42:55) Chapter 06

(03:12:27) Chapter 07

(03:46:58) Chapter 08

(04:19:49) Chapter 09

(04:46:12) Chapter 10

(05:19:21) Chapter 11

(05:57:56) Chapter 12

(06:32:26) Chapter 13

(07:03:42) Chapter 14

(07:48:16) Chapter 15

(08:10:21) Chapter 16

(08:40:22) Chapter 17

(09:18:48) Chapter 18

(09:46:52) Chapter 19

(10:14:26) Chapter 20

(10:48:28) Chapter 21

(11:29:33) Chapter 22

(11:53:59) Chapter 23

(12:36:45) Chapter 24

(13:09:01) Chapter 25

(13:54:32) Chapter 26

(14:30:20) Chapter 27

(14:47:23) Chapter 28

(14:52:21) Chapter 29

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