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Book Pania of the Reef

Download or read book Pania of the Reef written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pania is a creature of the sea, but she is fascinated by the land. She falls in love with a young chief who tries to make her stay on shore. The is the legend of how Pania became the Reef that today lies off the coast of Napier.

Book Pania of the Reef

Download or read book Pania of the Reef written by V. May Cottrell and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maui and Other Legends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Gossage
  • Publisher : Puffin Books
  • Release : 2016-10-03
  • ISBN : 9780143309291
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Maui and Other Legends written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful collection of artist Peter Gossage's beloved Maori myths, in one stunning volume.Peter Gossage's memorable retellings of Maori oral myths have captivated the children of New Zealand for generations. Their dramatic and distinctive illustrations with minimal yet evocative language form a powerful combination, and each has earned its place among the beloved classics of our literature. These are exciting, magical tales of adventure and intrigue. Several feature the remarkable culture hero Maui - the quick-witted and the trickster - whose exploits include slowing the sun in its course across the sky, fishing up the North Island/Te Ika a Maui, discovering the secret of fire and his attempt to trick the goddess of death and become immortal. Maui and Other Legends contains eight essential legends. In this volume you will find timeless favourites such as How Maui Found his Mother, Battle of the Mountains, Pania of the Reef and many more. The treasury includes- How Maui Found his Mother How Maui Found his Father and the Magic Jawbone The Fish of Maui How Maui Slowed the Sun How Maui Found the Secret of Fire How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death Battle of the Mountains Pania of the Reef"

Book The Rough Guide to New Zealand

Download or read book The Rough Guide to New Zealand written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 1173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to New Zealand is the definitive guide to the world's adventure capital. Detailed accounts of every attraction, along with crystal-clear maps and plans, will show you the very best New Zealand has to offer - from the white sandy beaches and vast kauri trees in the north to the hairline fiords and penguin colonies in the south. Expert writers give you the tips you need for experiencing Maori culture and food, striking out on multi-day hikes, or tracking down Marlborough's tastiest sauvignon blancs. At every point, The Rough Guide to New Zealand steers you to little-known sights, like secluded hot pools, as well as popular places to hang out, such as Wellington's best cafés. Insider tips, planning itineraries, and author picks give you the inside scoop on the best accommodations across every price range. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New Zealand.

Book Battle of the Mountains

Download or read book Battle of the Mountains written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongariro is forced to battle three strong mountains, Taranaki, Tauhara and Putauaki, to keep his wife, Pihanga, safe from them. This is the story of how he successfully banishes them to the positions where they stand today.

Book How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone

Download or read book How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maui wants to know two things: who is his father and where does his mother go during the day? One day he follows her and finds himself in the underworld.

Book The Rough Guide to New Zealand

Download or read book The Rough Guide to New Zealand written by Catherine Le Nevez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in ePub format. The Rough Guide to New Zealand is the definitive guide to the world's adventure capital. Detailed accounts of every attraction, along with crystal-clear maps and plans, will show you the very best New Zealand has to offer-from white-sand beaches and vast kauri trees in the north to the hairline fiords and penguin colonies in the south. Expert writers give you the tips you need, for experiencing Maori culture and food, striking out on multi-day hikes, or tracking down Marlborough's tastiest sauvignon blancs. At every point this guidebook steers you to little-known sights, like secluded hot pools, as well as popular places to hang out, such as Wellington's best cafés. Insider tips, planning itineraries, and author picks give you the inside scoop on the best accommodation across every price range. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to New Zealand.

Book Aria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Hinerangi
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-13
  • ISBN : 1776711068
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book Aria written by Jessica Hinerangi and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is my tongue?On display, a trophy of war.Where is my tikanga?Kept in the basement.Where is my mana?Locked in the museum.And where are my whanau?Scattered like dandelion seeds,from the grating city,to the harnessed horizon.Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. Spitting on the statue of Captain Cook. Aria is a first collection of poems by Jessica Hinerangi in which the author reconnects with her tupuna and with te ao Maori.He kakano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiateaa, ka tipu tonu.Tihei, mauri ora!

Book How Maui Found the Secret of Fire

Download or read book How Maui Found the Secret of Fire written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maui the trickster wants to know what will happen if he puts out all the fires in his pa. When his people wake they are very angry and Maui must go to the volcano to visit Mahuika, the goddess of fire. Peter Gossage's superbly retold stories of Maui are now New Zealand classics.

Book How Maui Slowed the Sun

Download or read book How Maui Slowed the Sun written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days seem to pass at a rate too fast to accomplish all his chores. Maui sets out to capture the sun, succeeds, and lengthens the hours of daylight. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Book The Treasury of Belusha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bevan Lawrence
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-02-19
  • ISBN : 1493137743
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Treasury of Belusha written by Bevan Lawrence and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale, three in one; the story of an adopted child who finds inadvertently, that he is the head of a notorious family. Its also about the history of a chateau, once a castle now a hotel, and its about the origins and the scull-duggery surrounding a hoard of treasure gathered from all over the world to end up in one mans hands. A book of fiction with just enough truth to be believable, written by an author who loves the magic behind a good piratical legend. Today Bevan has a very international house hold at his home in Auckland New Zealand where many folk from around the world have come to stay, he meets and talks and sometimes finds a true story around which he weaves a tale or two. The treasury of Belusha is supposed to be a fun novel about a wealth obsessed Napoleonic General; the affect he has decades later on the life of an ordinary New Zealander, and an obscure man who through his own manipulations joins together the heritages of both men.

Book Tane Steals the Show

Download or read book Tane Steals the Show written by Lino Nelisi and published by . This book was released on 1997-05-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tane wants to participate in his uncle's marriage celebration, but everyone thinks he is too small to learn to dance and sing, but with much practice, he surprises them all and steals the show.

Book How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death

Download or read book How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Gossage's Maui series is well-known and loved. The six titles in the series have been repackaged and redesigned for a new generation of readers, without losing the integrity of the initial artwork. The books follow Maui's birth, his abandonment by his mother and his search for her, his search for his father and discovery and eventual owners of his grandfather's magic jawbone, and his fishing up of Te Ika a Maui (the North Island). How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death is the story of how Maui sets out to find the Goddess, succeeds, and is reborn.

Book The Rough Guide to New Zealand

Download or read book The Rough Guide to New Zealand written by Laura Harper and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the most extraordinary aspects of both wild and cosmopolitan New Zealand, this Rough Guide offers unparalleled coverage of activities and accommodations. of color photos. 80 maps.

Book The Mermaid Chronicles

Download or read book The Mermaid Chronicles written by Megan Dunn and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty, freckled and facing infertility, Megan Dunn hears the siren call that reawakens her lifelong obsession, and sets off in pursuit of mermaids. Real mermaids. From Coney Island and Copenhagen to Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand, from the semiotics of 1984 romantic comedy Splash to meet-ups with top professional mermaids, her odyssey takes her fathoms deep, past the wreck and the boardwalk, as she asks the question that has plagued humans for millennia: What is it about mermaids? Diving into the caverns of her own life, Megan loses the plot but finds her voice and hears the mermaids singing. Shimmeringly intellectual and devastatingly deadpan, tragicomic and true, this is an off-the-hook tale about sex and death, mothers and daughters, women’s work and marriage, the stories we tell ourselves and the myths that define us all. ‘Her voice is so strong. It’s wonderful.’ — Lorde ‘A treasure of a memoir . . . funny, frank and moving.’ — Kim Hill ‘Observes the importance of fantasy with keen wit and an open heart’. — Pip Adam, author of Nothing to See ‘A fabulously witty adventure, written in deeply moving prose.’ — Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale

Book The Fish of Maui

Download or read book The Fish of Maui written by Peter Gossage and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maui's jealous brothers don't want him to come fishing with them. Maui is cleverer than they are, however, and not only does he trick them, but he catches the best fish of all.

Book A Natural History of Mermaids

Download or read book A Natural History of Mermaids written by Emily Hawkins and published by Folklore Field Guides. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Natural History of Mermaids is a meticulously detailed field notebook containing all there is to know about the natural history of mermaids from around the world. In 1872, intrepid (fictional) explorer Darcy Delamare disguised herself as a man to claim a place on board the (real life) scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger. She made a record of her findings on the trip, recounting the extraordinary sea creatures she witnessed: creatures that, until now, nobody had believed really existed... mermaids! Following on from the beautiful A Natural History of Fairies and A Natural History of Magick, this beautifully illustrated vintage album is filled with descriptions and illustrations of Delamare's findings, from tales of mermaids in ancient lore to more recent sightings as well as facts on the beliefs and superstitions surrounding these elusive creatures. Children will delight in discovering the anatomy, behaviour and lifecycles of the Merfolk and how they have hidden themselves from human discovery over millennia. Pore over the anatomy of tails, learn how these mysterious creatures communicate and immerse yourself in their underwater world. The Folklore Field Guides series is a charming collection of beautifully illustrated handbooks on topics of lore and legend. Fascinating facts are accompanied by breathtaking illustrations, all presented in an engaging narrative form.