$40.00
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2020
Summary
Dame Anne Salmond’s most ambitious book to date, shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018.
Six centuries ago, Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand. They rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869409296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869409299 |
| Author: | Anne Salmond |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 890g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Anne Salmond
Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland and author of books including The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas; Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti and Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas. Among many honours and awards, she is an International Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; in 2013 she became New Zealander of the Year and winner of the Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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