$56.61
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2018
Summary
An epic, award-winning account of Pakeha-Maori relations immediately following Captain Cook’s voyages to New Zealand.
“Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.” - Michael King, North & South
Anne Salmond’s extraordinary Between Worlds begins with the arrival of Cook’s second expedition in 1773 and takes the story through to 1815, with the establishment of the first British missionary settlement in the Bay of Islands. It describes Cook’s second and third voyages, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143772170 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143772171 |
| Author: | Anne Salmond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.75kg |
| Dimensions: | 44mm x 186mm x 260mm |
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Anne Salmond
Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand’s most prominent anthropologists and historians.
Books
- Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings
- Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman
- Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (co-authored with Eruera Stirling, winner of a Wattie Book Award in 1981)
- Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772
- Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815 (winner of the Ernest Scott Prize in 1998)
- The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in 2004)
- Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
- Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (a finalist in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards)
Awards and Honours
- CBE for services to literature and the Maori people (1988)
- Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history (1995)
- Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for excellence in scientific research (2009)
Lives in Devonport, Auckland.
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