A Savage Country: The untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s by Paul Moon
39.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this f ...Show more
Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman by Amiria Manutahi Stirling
40.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
This is the story of Amiria s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond. Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa late last century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her school ...Show more
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle without End by Ranginui Walker
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
A revised edition of the best-selling book containing two new chapters covering the last decade and a half. 'The struggle without end continues...' This is a revised edition of Dr Ranginui Walker's best-selling history of Aotearoa, New Zealand, from a Maori perspective. Since the mid-nineteenth century, ...Show more
Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
Second hand. Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a stru ...Show more
He Kete he Korero: Every Kete Has a Story by Toi Te Rito Maihi
38.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
Every kete has a story. This collection is drawn from the rich store of information and memories associated with kete - these much loved but often overlooked 'baskets of knowledge'. Some stories are short, others grow with the telling. All are told with warmth, humour and humility, giving us insight int ...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 History | 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