$36.45
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2008
Summary
Ask That Mountain: A Story of Resistance and Resilience
A fearless and ground-breaking investigation of the government-sanctioned land grab at Parihaka, and one of New Zealand’s most influential histories.
Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand’s colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143010869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143010867 |
| Author: | Dick Scott |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Edition: | 9th |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 592g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 189mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Dick Scott
Dick Scott was born in Palmerston North in 1923. After graduating from Massey College, he share-milked in a Maori farming community at Kai Iwi before pursuing a career as a journalist and historian. An award-winning author of many books, in 2007 Scott was awarded a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (Non-fiction).
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