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Tuai : a traveller in two worlds / Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins.

Nā: Kaituhi: Momo rauemi: TextTextWhakaahuatanga: 288 pages : photographs ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780947518806
  • 0947518800
Ngā marau: DDC classification:
  • 993.1301092 23
Contents:
Introduction: a man standing in a canoe -- Beyond the horizon -- The go-between -- Bringing the Pākehā -- Uneasy friends -- The wide world -- Surviving London -- 'The most extraordinary district in the world' -- Love, kindness and impossible demands -- Leaving England -- A long goodbye -- Lessons and lemons -- The return -- Tuai's dilemma -- Fear and firepower -- At war -- Enter the French -- Teaching about Māori life.
Awards:
  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD 2018.
Summary: "A thrilling biographical narrative of a young Bay of Islands leader who grew up in the Māori world of the early nineteenth century - and crossed the globe to encounter England in the midst of the industrial revolution. This is the story of the Māori discovery of England" -- book jacket.
Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.
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Introduction: a man standing in a canoe -- Beyond the horizon -- The go-between -- Bringing the Pākehā -- Uneasy friends -- The wide world -- Surviving London -- 'The most extraordinary district in the world' -- Love, kindness and impossible demands -- Leaving England -- A long goodbye -- Lessons and lemons -- The return -- Tuai's dilemma -- Fear and firepower -- At war -- Enter the French -- Teaching about Māori life.


"A thrilling biographical narrative of a young Bay of Islands leader who grew up in the Māori world of the early nineteenth century - and crossed the globe to encounter England in the midst of the industrial revolution. This is the story of the Māori discovery of England" -- book jacket.

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD 2018.

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