Niue 1774-1974
200 years of conflict and change
$34.22
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2015
Summary
Niue: A Lone Island’s Journey Through Time
Tiny Niue, a solitary island in the South Pacific, rises dramatically from the ocean’s depths. Its imposing cliffs and remote location earned it the name ‘Savage Island,’ deterring early visitors. Yet, Niue possesses a captivating history of contact, from Captain Cook’s brief landing in 1774 to the arrival of whalers, traders, and missionaries in the 19th century.
This narrative extends into the 20th century, when New Zealand’s infl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781877578953 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1877578959 |
| Author: | Margaret Pointer |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Imprint: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 1.04kg |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 241mm x 170mm |
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About The Author
Margaret Pointer
Born and educated in Gisborne, Margaret Pointer trained as a secondary school teacher of history, geography and social studies. Her teaching career has been interspersed with regular stints of living overseas with her diplomat husband and their two sons. When Mike Pointer was posted to Niue as High Commissioner in the late 1990s, Margaret became involved in research to trace the lost story of Niue Island’s involvement in World War I. The resulting exhibition and book rekindled a passion for further historical research and led to this larger publication. Margaret was awarded a Copyright Licensing New Zealand Writers’ Award in 2013, to help fund what the selection panel described as ‘a ground-breaking piece of work’.
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