Best of Both Worlds: The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
41.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of ...Show more
Pakeha Maori - The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley
32.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
New edition. This book describes one of the most extraordinary and fascinating stories in NZ history. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Mamon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others this is their larg ...Show more
Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil - Ng by MIHI EDWARDS
29.95 NZD
Category: Maori Books
This is the continuation of Aunty Mihi's story begun in "Mihipeka: Early Years". It is a view of New Zealand during World War II and the 1950s, through the eyes of a young Maori woman desperately trying to fit into the Pakeha system.
Being Pakeha Now - Reflections and Recollections of a White Native by Michael King
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1985, Michael King's Being Pakeha became a gentle Kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who mumbled that they didn't have a strong culture and identity of their own. Being Pakeha Now is an updated edition that reflects on t ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars and The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by James Belich
31.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of 'Victorian interpretation' to acknowledge those qualities, Belich's account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Maori, in Belich's view, won the North ...Show more
Dream Swimmer by Witi Ihimaera
34.95 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Maori Books
Witi Ihimaera's best-selling novel The Matriarch was the acclaimed winner of the Wattie Award in 1986. The Dream Swimmer is the much-anticipated sequel.This new novel continues the odyssey of Tama Mahana, grandson and heir to the matriarch, as he takes up the mantle of leadership, along with his grandmo ...Show more
Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 1769 - 1869 Vol 1 by ed claudia orange
40.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
The Story of a Treaty by Claudia Orange
19.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's War, New Zealand 1868-1869 by James Belich
60.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
"Belich tells a truly terrible, truly epic story. Titokowaru strides through his pages like a tragic figure from Greek drama." - Maurice Shadbolt