Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All : A New Zealand Story (Paperback)

from leebot

My husband and I have twice visited New Zealand -- one of our favorite places to travel, so I am always interested in reading about the country from a variety of perspectives and this book did not disappoint. It is, as the sub-title suggests -- "A New Zealand story" -- which I interpret as one of...

from labfs39

I began reading this book, not knowing what to expect. The title was a bit off-putting, and I had read a review that warned readers off in no uncertain terms. But from the prologue on, I found the book to be engaging and a wonderful read. The history of the Maori people and the colonization of Ne...

from phinz

Christina Thompson takes all of her research into the history of New Zealand and mixes it up in a pot with all of her personal experience of her marriage to Seven, a Maori man. What she cooks up for us is a wonderful tale of the decline of the Maori dynasty in New Zealand and its reasons, the ris...

from leebot

My husband and I have twice visited New Zealand -- one of our favorite places to travel, so I am always interested in reading about the country from a variety of perspectives and this book did not disappoint. It is, as the sub-title suggests -- "A New Zealand story" -- which I interpret as one of...

from madhatter22

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is part memoir, part travel narrative, part history, part anthropology. Some of these parts work better than others. I really enjoyed the sections of the book that dealt with early contact between Maoris and Europeans, and with the results of the two...