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  • Bligh

    William Bligh in the South Seas

    by Anne Salmond ...
    In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • First Contact

    Tasman’s Arrival in Taitapu, 1642

    by Anne Salmond ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    As the Dutch replied in darkness with shouts and trumpet calls from the decks of their ships, the warriors must have been mystified by these creatures who entered into their rituals, yet used exotic instruments and spoke an unintelligible tongue.With the publication of her book Two Worlds, Anne Salmond introduced a penetrating rewriting of our traditional views of first contacts between the Māori ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Tears of Rangi

    Experiments Across Worlds

    by Anne Salmond ...
    A deep dive into the collision of worlds in early New Zealand. Six centuries ago, Polynesian explorers adapted to Aotearoa. Four centuries later, Europeans arrived. Dame Anne Salmond explores this cosmo-diversity, where multiple worlds engaged and collided.For scholars and readers of Māori and New Zealand history, this book offers a unique lens on cultural exchange and the impact of colonialism. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind

    Selected Writings, 1980–2020

    by Anne Salmond ...
    A landmark collection of essays exploring Māori history, cultural exchange, and the ongoing legacy of colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand.Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind gathers the selected writings of Dame Anne Salmond, a distinguished scholar whose work has illuminated the complexities of Māori and European interactions for over forty years. From her groundbreaking studies of Māori ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BWB Texts: Turning Points

    Series series BWB Texts
    Award-winning writers Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond and Dick Scott explore pivotal moments in New Zealand’s history in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. In When the Tour Came to Auckland Geoff Chapple describes the startling scenes as the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city.From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original ... Read more

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  • The Pacific

    In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill

    A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the ... Read more

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  • Van Diemen's Land

    by James Boyce ...
    The acclaimed history of colonial Tasmania'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim FlanneryAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 1835

    The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

    by James Boyce ...
    The Award-Winning History of Colonial Melbourne'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' —David MarrWith the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty.In 1835 James Boyce ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition)

    Living By Maori Values

    by Hirini Mead ...
    Tikanga Māori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Māori ways of doing things as they were done in the past, as they are done in the present – and as they may yet be. In this revised edition, Hirini Mead has added an extensive new chapter on mana whenua, mana moana, Māori authority over land and ocean, and the different interpretations and applications of ... Read more

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  • The Great Divide

    The Story of New Zealand, and its Treaty

    by Ian Wishart ...
    New Zealand to many is 'Middle Earth', home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans.The country was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there...Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate? What ... Read more

    $14.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus