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Prodigious Birds by Atholl Anderson (University of Otago, New Zealand)
89.95 NZD
105.00 (14% off)
Category: NZ Natural History
"Prodigious Birds" brings together the history of the field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large, flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. It is unquestionably one of natural history's most astonishing ...Show more
Prodigious Birds: Moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand by Atholl Anderson
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An in depth, technical discussion of the Moas and their relationship to early Maori. Includes illustrations and charts with discussions of the archealogical evidence. Some marks to the dust jacket, which is in a library style protective wrapping. Interior in very good condition.
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
111.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.The story begins with the migration of a ...Show more
Te Ao Tawhito: The Old World 3000 BC- AD 1830: 2018 by Atholl Anderson
59.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
Te Ao Tawhito : The Old World contemplates Maori origins in the blue continent, the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hapu and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building ...Show more
The First Migration : Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 (BWB Texts) by Atholl Anderson
17.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: good
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken fro ...Show more
Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori by James Herries Beattie; Atholl Anderson (ed.)
59.95 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
First published - 1920 Reprinting September 2009, DunedinA classic text, now back in print with new cover Journalist Herries Beattie recorded southern Maori history for over 50 years.This is his most important work. For twelve months in 1920 he interviewed people from Foveaux Strait to North Canterbury, ...Show more
Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson by Atholl Anderson
59.95 NZD
Category: Science
Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the dev ...Show more
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