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Woven by Water

Author : David Young
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780908975624
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Woven by Water written by David Young and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mana of the Maori is by water. No one, here, carrying the same thing that I'm carrying today." --Titi Tihu In living memory, before the Whanganui River became a tawny mass seeming to flow upside down, the river bed was clean stone and the water of the river "tasted like kowhai. The trees used to grow over the river and drop into the water, and the water tasted like kowhai." This is a book of many river people--a "hidden" prophet, living with over a thousand followers at a place now deserted; a Pakeha-Maori, making gunpowder using charcoal made from willows grown from cuttings taken from Napoleon's grave; a riverboat magnate, building a fiefdom on 'the Rhine of Maoriland'; a highly decorated soldier, fighting as a kupapa yet fighting for tino rangatiratanga; arsenic and flour poisoners--and always, the river itself.

Whanganui River Stories

Author : Thomas William Downes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780959800890
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Whanganui River Stories written by Thomas William Downes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Suzanne Aubert

Author : Jessie Munro
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 187724242X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Suzanne Aubert written by Jessie Munro and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of bestselling biography. Published by Bridget Williams Books. This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congretation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year award in the 1997 Montana Book Awards. Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family in the mid-nineteenth century. Lyon's Catholic missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled. Later, living up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem, she set up New Zealand's home-grown Catholic congregation, published a significant Maori text, broke in a hill farm, manufactured medicines, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression. The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital city. There she would be a constant sign of political commitment and caring for people 'of all creeds and none' until she died in 1926. 'If any New Zealand book has earned the label "long awaited", it is this one... This is a superb book, scrupulously researched...stylishly written, generously illustrated and rewarding to read... Most importantly, it speaks to our times.' - Michael King, 'New Zealand Listener'.

Flow

Author : Airini Beautrais
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781776561148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Flow written by Airini Beautrais and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais' family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow. Flow is a brilliant polyphony of stories - large, small, geological, ecological, and human - that draw on many forms and voices and move through various stages of human settlement up to the present day. In March 2017, in a world first, the Whanganui River was granted the status of legal personhood. 'This remarkable sequence winds and eddies like the Whanganui River, filtering the region's many histories into something exhilarating and readable. Is verse the future of history?' --James Brown.

Landings

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869796926
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Landings written by Jenny Pattrick and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and evocative, this is a moving novel of a unique time and place from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collection, from Samuel Blencoe, trying to forget his past life as a convict, to the hoteliers at Pipiriki, the nuns at Jerusalem, the Maori families, the Chinese market gardener and the farmers, like Danny and Stella, trying to tame the wild bush. There's also Bridie, the strange, silent girl, who haunts the banks of the river where the accident occurred that robbed her of her mind. Like the tributaries that trickle down the mountains and join the mighty river, so the lives of these people come together in this vivid and moving tale of a stunningly unique place.

The Strength of Eggshells

Author : Kirsty Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473474218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Strength of Eggshells written by Kirsty Powell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She's six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional. But Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores the past by pushing her fingers firmly into her ears. Who is her mother and why did she abandon her? What became of her grandmother who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And who was the man she lived with in such an unorthodox way? And what should Kate do about her own two-pointed love triangle? Somewhere out there are the answers; out where only her motorbike can take her. THE STRENGTH OF EGGSHELLS is an emotional journey that explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach"--Amazon site.

History of and Guide to the Wanganui River

Author : Thomas William Downes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book History of and Guide to the Wanganui River written by Thomas William Downes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of and Guide to the Wanganui River

Author : Thomas William Downes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book History of and Guide to the Wanganui River written by Thomas William Downes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bridge to Nowhere

Author : Arthur P. Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473001155
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge to Nowhere written by Arthur P. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tears of Rangi

Author : Anne Salmond
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775589234
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Tears of Rangi written by Anne Salmond and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 where 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 new island home. In this remote, beautiful archipelago, settlers from Polynesia and Europe (and elsewhere) have clashed and forged alliances, they have fiercely debated what is real and what is common sense, what is good and what is right. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with a fine-grained inquiry into the early period of encounters between Māori and Europeans in New Zealand (1769–1840), Salmond then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life – waterways, land, the sea and people. We live in a world of gridded maps, Outlook calendars and balance sheets – making it seem that this is the nature of reality itself. But in New Zealand, concepts of whakapapa and hau, complex networks and reciprocal exchange, may point to new ways of understanding interactions between peoples, and between people and the natural world. Like our ancestors, Anne Salmond suggests, we too may have a chance to experiment across worlds.

Te Ahi Ka (orange/male Cover)

Author : Martin Toft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911306399
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Te Ahi Ka (orange/male Cover) written by Martin Toft and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 Toft spent six months in the middle and upper reaches of the Whanganui River in an area known as the King Country. Here he met Maori who were in the process of reversing the colonisation of their people and returning to their ancestral land, Mangapapapa which is on the steep banks of the river inside Whanganui National Park. At the end of his journey Toft was given the Maori name Pouma Pokai-Whenua. Returning twenty years later to rekindle the spiritual kinship he had experienced, Toft began to work on this book. Its narrative is situated within the context of the current Whanganui River Deed of Settlement, Ruruku Whakatupua and the projects led by local Maori to settle historical grievances with the government dating back to the 1870s.

The Story is in Our Bones

Author : Osprey Orielle Lake
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771423838
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Story is in Our Bones written by Osprey Orielle Lake and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build earth-centered communities for all. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice and deep cultural analyses, and the collective knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world in crisis. Author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake weaves together ecological, mythical, political, and cultural understandings and shares her experiences working with global leaders, systems-thinkers, climate justice activists, and Indigenous Peoples. She seeks to summon a new way of being and thinking in the Anthropocene, which includes transforming the interlocking crises of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and ecocide, to build thriving Earth communities for all. Lake calls forth historical memory of who we are in the Earth's lineage to bring into being the world we keenly long for, at the delicate threshold of great peril or great promise. For anyone grieving our collective loss and wanting to take action, The Story is in Our Bones is a vital guide to remaking our world. This hopeful, engaging, and creatively lyrical work reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides a desperately needed antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.

The Denniston Rose

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869793757
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Denniston Rose written by Jenny Pattrick and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the terrifyingly steep Incline - the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down to the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring down the coal: ex-goldminers down on their luck; others running from the law or from a woman or worse. They work alongside recruited English miners, solid and skilled, who scorn these disorganised misfits and want them off the Hill. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork, as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, struggling to secure a place in this tough and often aggressive community. The Denniston Rose is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child, who, in appalling conditions, remains a survivor.

Woven by Water

Author : David Christopher Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Woven by Water written by David Christopher Young and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whanganui River was a major access way well before European settlement. Some of the major events of the river's history and stories of the river people are brought together in this book.

Salt River Songs

Author : Sam Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947503031
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Salt River Songs written by Sam Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar themes of family, friends and lovers, and the challenges of ageing and mortality. Salt River Songs will also have an introduction from writer and journalist Colin Hogg, an old friend of Sam's and, appropriately, will be published to mark Sam's 70th birthday.

Tupuna Awa

Author : Marama Muru-Lanning
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775588629
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Tupuna Awa written by Marama Muru-Lanning and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We have always owned the water . . . we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone', King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: ‘King Tuheitia's claim that Maori have always owned New Zealand's water is just plain wrong'. So who does own the water in New Zealand – if anyone – and why does it matter? Offering some human context around that fraught question, Tupuna Awa looks at the people and politics of the Waikato River. For iwi and hapu of the lands that border its 425-kilometre length, the Waikato River is an ancestor, a taonga and a source of mauri, lying at the heart of identity and chiefly power. It is also subject to governing oversight by the Crown and intersected by hydro-stations managed by state-owned power companies: a situation rife with complexity and subject to shifting and subtle power dynamics. Marama Muru-Lanning explains how Maori of the region, the Crown and Mighty River Power have talked about the ownership, guardianship and stakeholders of the river. By examining the debates over water in one New Zealand river, over a single recent period, Muru-Lanning provides a powerful lens through which to view modern iwi politics, debates over water ownership, and contests for power between Maori and the state.

Bug Week

Author : Airini Beautrais
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776563824
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Bug Week written by Airini Beautrais and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night.Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.