Download or read book Folklore and Fairy Tales of the Canterbury Maoris written by Taare Te Maiharoa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maori Folk tales of the Port Hills Canterbury New Zealand written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maori Folk tales of the Port Hills Canterbury New Zealand written by James Cowan and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the opening of tracks along the bold range of heights between the Canterbury Plains and Lyttelton Harbour, and the acquisition of new reserves for the public, mainly through the efforts of one tireless worker, Mr. H. G. Ell, Christchurch residents are perhaps coming to a more lively sense of the value of the Port Hills as a place of genuine recreation. The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pleasure place that any New Zealand city possesses within easy distance of its streets, and the worth of this mountain track, so easily accessible and commanding so noble a look-out over sea and plains and Alps, will increase in proportion to the growth of the Christchurch population. The fragments of the native bush which survive in the valleys will be of surpassing botanical interest in another generation or two, but the vegetation of the hills inevitably will suffer many changes, and an exotic growth will for the most part replace the ancient trees. With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves and along the public tracks, however, the monumental rock-beauty will remain the great and peculiar feature of the hills, their most wonderful and unalterable glory. The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indeed the most remarkable heights in the whole of the South Island, not excepting the snowy Alps; there is nothing like them outside the northern volcanic regions, and in some aspects they carry a greater scientific and scenic value than even the crater-cones around the city of Auckland. What the Canterbury coast would have been like but for the vast volcanic convulsions which formed these ranges and huge craters is not difficult to imagine. It would have been a uniform billiard-table on an enormous scale, very gently sloping to the sea, with scarcely a break but for the snow rivers and with never a usable natural harbour. Volcanic energy gave us Lyttelton and Akaroa harbours, and shaped for us also the ever-marvellous hills that are at once a grateful relief to the eye from the eternal evenness of the plains and a healthful place of pleasure for our city dwellers. The passage of untold ages has so little altered these fire-made ranges that build a picture-like ring about Lyttelton Harbour that their origin and history are plainly revealed to the climber and the Summit Road stroller; the story of the rocks can scarcely be mistaken. Geologists from the days of von Haast have written much of the Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanic systems, and in truth it is an ever-new and ever-fascinating subject. There is hardly a more interesting specimen of vulcanism in New Zealand, for example, than the strange wall of grey-white lava rock which Europeans call the Giant’s Causeway and the Maoris “The Fire of Tamatea,” which protrudes from the hilltop just above Rapaki, and which may be seen again on the far side of the harbour, a volcanic dyke that the ancient people—with surely some perception of geological truth—connected in their legends with the internal fires of the North Island. Along the craggy hill faces again, and particularly well in such places as Redcliffs and the Sumner end of the range, it is easy to read the history of the rocks in the alternate strata of solid volcanic rock and the soft rubble that seems almost to glow again with the olden fires. The most wonderful example of this stratified formation is the face of the south head of Akaroa Harbour; but it is possible to study similar pages in the volcanic chapter of Canterbury’s history without going many yards from the Summit Road anywhere from the sea to the hills above the harbour head.
Download or read book Folklore and Fairy Tales of the Canterbury Maoris Told to Maud Goodenough Hayter Mrs T Moses written by Taare Rewiti Te Maiharoa and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folklore and Fairy Tales of the Canterbury Maoris Told by Taare Te Maiharoa to Maud Goodenough Hayter Mrs T Moses Edited by Herries Beattie With Portraits written by Taare Rewiti TE MAIHAROA and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maori Folk tales of the Port Hills Canterbury New Zealand written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fairy Folk Tales of the M ori written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Maori Lore of Lake Alp and Fiord written by Herries Beattie and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maori Folk tales of the Port Hills Canterbury New Zealand written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Folktales and Fairy Tales 4 volumes written by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 2815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
Download or read book History of M ori of Nelson and Marlborough written by Hilary Mitchell and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Volume One, Te Tangata me te Whenua - the people and the land, encompasses myths and legends of the region, the succession of tribes who have inhabited Te Tau Ihu o te Waka and their interactions, early encounters with Europeans, the arrival of the New Zealand Company, the Treaty of Waitangi, land transactions, and the administration of Maori Resserves." - p. 16.
Download or read book Maori Folk Tales of the Port Hills Canterbury New Zealand With Illustrations and a Map written by James COWAN (of Wellington, New Zealand.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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