Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley
44.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngapuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and serve ...Show more
Matariki : The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
19.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calndar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was greeted with great festivals. It was used as a guide to plantin ...Show more
White Chief - The Story of a Pakeha Maori - The colourful life and times of Judge F. E. Maning of the Hokianga by John Nicholson
39.95 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: good
The Colourful Life and Times of Judge F.E. Maning of the HokiangaFrederick Maning was the best-known Pakeha-Maori. Arriving in the Hokianga region in the 1830s, he married a high-ranking Nga Puhi woman and had four children.Maning recorded his experiences in the book Old New Zealand, a classic of coloni ...Show more
Tu by Patricia Grace
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
Taua - Musket Wars, Land Wars, or Tikanga? Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Nineteenth Century by Angela Ballara
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
'Musket wars', 'land wars' or tikanga?; Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Nineteenth Century. Taua is the first major study of Maori warfare for decades. It asks the question: what if the nature of Maori society itself was the cause of the wars - not the introduction of new and destructive military ...Show more
The Quest for Origins - Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands by K. R. Howe
29.95 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
From space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are but some of today's more fanciful claims about the first settlers of New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thou ...Show more
Baby No-Eyes by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitched together by pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No-eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's ...Show more
Illustrated Guide to Maori Art, An (2008 edition) by Terence Barrow
31.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
DoP 2000, Auckland First published in 1984 178x248mm /104pp Softcover The arts of the Maori are among the most alluring and sophisticated of the Pacific peoples. They developed their skills through centuries of endeavour and craft experimentation, expressing religious and artistic ideas in wood, stone, ...Show more
Maori Arts of the Gods by Deidre Brown
31.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Traditional objects of great beauty, made of wood, bone, greenstone, feathers and fibre, are collected in this sumptuous pictorial guide to Maori art. Deidre Brown has selected the finest of Brain Brake's photo's and adds interesting and informed commentary on the Maori gods and legends that inspired t ...Show more
Matariki The Maori New Year by Libby Hakaraia
20.99 NZD
Category: Mātauranga Māori
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Māori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was greet ...Show more
Tangata Whenua : The World of the Maori (New Edition) by Don Stafford
36.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
A thousand years ago, the Polynesian ancestors of the Maori travelled to Aotearoa in giant sea-going canoes. Here they developed a rich and complex culture, with an artistic output unparalleled in the Pacific. In this easily understood introduction to all 'things Maori', their vast migrations, their arr ...Show more
Maori Life and Custom (revised edition 2008) by WJ Phillips (revised by John Huria)
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
This encyclopaedia is the fruit of a lifetime's study into pre-Pakeha Maori society, and is a full and authoritative guide to old Maori customs. Drawing on a range of ethnographic research and intimate professional knowledge, Phillipps gathers together in one comprehensive volume an array of subjects in ...Show more