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Book Journal of a Ten Months  Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand written by Richard Alexander Cruise and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Ten Months  Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand written by Richard Alexander Cruise and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Ten Months  Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand written by Richard Alexander Cruise and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Ten Months  Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand written by Richard Alexander Cruise and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Ten Months  Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Months Residence in New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of a Ten Month s Residence in New Zealand

Download or read book Journal of a Ten Month s Residence in New Zealand written by Richard Alexander Cruise and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyagers  Remarkable European Explorations of New Zealand

Download or read book The Voyagers Remarkable European Explorations of New Zealand written by Paul Moon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in the crossfire of inter-tribal wars, witnesses to cannibalism and to scenes of both ethereal beauty and chilling terror - the early European explorers of New Zealand were a diverse group of individuals who undertook voyages of sometimes epic proportions through the country. In The Voyagers, Paul Moon tells dramatic stories of Europeans discovering and exploring New Zealand during the first half of the 1800s. Ocean adventures, cross-country trekking, imperial and spiritual conquests, first contacts with Maori, artists seeking the 'sublime', scientific discovery and commercial pursuits all intertwine to form a fascinating portrait of a land undergoing immense change. Jules Dumont d'Urville, Samuel Marsden, Ferdinand von Hochstetter and Charles Heaphy complement an array of lesser known but no less intrepid explorers - soldiers and sailors, travellers and settlers, missionaries, artists and officials - all of whom ventured from their homelands in search of new horizons. The Voyagers is a perceptive and absorbing account of nineteenth-century exploration, and of the very human characters who helped put New Zealand on the map. Also available as an eBook 'Fascinating and revealing . . . this well written and illustrated book is in keeping with the best of [Moon's] many works on New Zealand history.' --Waikato Times 'Offers particular insights into a largely unmapped land and its people . . . very accessible . . . a fascinating, cohesive story.' --Dominion Post

Book Double Ghosts

Download or read book Double Ghosts written by David A. Chappell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.

Book This is My Place

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  • Author : Paul Monin
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 1877242195
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book This is My Place written by Paul Monin and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is My Place' tells the story of a vigorous Maori economy interacting with settlers and the government at the then capital of Auckland. It traces also Maori resistance to colonisation, wars and debt, and the eventual loss and confiscation of vast acres of Maori land. By 1875 the wealth of Hauraki was mostly in the hands of the newcomers: European settlers and their government.

Book Tuai

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  • Author : Alison Jones
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2017-07-10
  • ISBN : 0947518819
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Tuai written by Alison Jones and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually benefi cial relationship with the people they knew as Pākehā. On his epic journey Tuai would visit exotic foreign ports, mix with teeming crowds in the huge metropolis of London, and witness the marvels of industrialisation at the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. With his lively travelling companion Tītere, he would attend fashionable gatherings and sit for his portrait. He shared his deep understanding of Māori language and culture. And his missionary friends did their best to convert him to Christianity. But on returning to his Māori world in 1819, Tuai found there were difficult choices to be made. His plan to integrate new European knowledge and relationships into his Ngare Raumati community was to be challenged by the rapidly shifting politics of the Bay of Islands. With sympathy and insight, Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins uncover the remarkable story of one of the first Māori travellers to Europe.

Book This Horrid Practice

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  • Author : Paul Moon
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2008-08-04
  • ISBN : 1742287050
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book This Horrid Practice written by Paul Moon and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have considered it a subject best kept quiet about in public. Paul Moon brings together an impressive array of sources from a variety of disciplines to produce this frequently contentious but always stimulating exploration of how and why Maori ate other human beings, and why the practice shuddered to a halt just a few decades after the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. The book includes a comprehensive survey of cannibalism practices among traditional Maori, carefully assessing the evidence and concluding it was widespread. Other chapters look at how explorers and missionaries saw the practice; the role of missionaries and Christianity in its end; and, in the final chapter, why there has been so much denial on the subject and why some academics still deny that it ever happened. This Horrid Practice promises to be one of the leading works of New Zealand history published in 2008. It is a highly original work that every New Zealand history enthusiast will want to own and read.

Book Guns and Utu

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  • Author : Matthew Wright
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742287972
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Guns and Utu written by Matthew Wright and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So they went forth, and they were given over to death by the guns.' -Rangipito, of Ngati Rahiri In the two decades before the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was ripped asunder by island-spanning waves of warfare, extreme violence and cannibalism. Great war parties surged the length of the land to avenge historic grievances, killing and burning as they went. Whole peoples were uprooted and found new homes. Despite the name given them by history, one thing we can be certain about is that these dramatic conflicts were not simply 'musket' wars. This was an age of courage, of heroism, of great character and of astonishing deeds. And they are not dead history. Twenty-first-century New Zealand has been profoundly shaped by them, not least in the location of most of the major cities. In Guns and Utu, historian Matthew Wright disputes the many mythologies of these wars, examining some of the whys and wherefores of this generation-long culture collision. 'A spectacular book.' -Don Rood, Radio New Zealand National

Book Outcasts of the Gods

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  • Author : Hazel Petrie
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2015-09-25
  • ISBN : 177558786X
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Outcasts of the Gods written by Hazel Petrie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. ‘Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery ‘just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or colonial administrators responsible for ending the practice? What was the nature of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society and how did that intersect with the perceptions of British colonists and the anti-slavery movement? A meticulously researched book, Outcasts of the Gods? looks closely at a huge variety of evidence to answer these questions, analyzing bondage and freedom in traditional Maori society; the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity; and how the arrival of colonists and new trade opportunities transformed Maori society and the place of captives within it.

Book General Catalogue of     Free Public Library

Download or read book General Catalogue of Free Public Library written by Auckland Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggs Bros  Catalogues

Download or read book Maggs Bros Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: