Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All A New Zealand Story

Name: Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All A New Zealand Story
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ISBN: 9781596911260

ISBN-10: 1596911263

ISBN-13: 9781596911260

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christina Thompson

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An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You Allis the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson’s marriage to a Maori man. As an American graduate student studying literature in Australia, Thompson traveled on vacation to New Zealand, where she met a Maori…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.10" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Maps


Author's Note


Prologue: New Zealand, 1642



Paihia



Abominably Saucy



Mangonui



Terra Incognita



Present Perfect



The Venus



A Natural Gentleman



A Dangerous People



Smoked Heads



Turton's Land Deeds



Nana Miri



Hawaiki



Once Were Warriors



Gu, Choki, Pa



Matariki



Thieves and Indian-Killers



One Summer


Epilogue: New Zealand, 1642


Acknowledgments


A Note on Pronunciation and Spelling


Glossary


Selected Bibliography