0140285407 - Pakeha Maori: The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans Who Lived as Maori in Early New Zealand von Bentley, Trevor (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. Photos, Art (illustrator). 1st. The sub-title to Bentley's account of "Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand" indeed introduces extraordinary examples of this seldom-told aspect of the first inter-action and assimilation of two races. Initially these were deserting seamen and escaped convicts from Australia who provided the majority of pale-skinned arrivals. While most were welcomed into tribal lives, others were regarded less favourablry, becoming virtual slaves. However, the author has focussed his study from 1799 to 1840 "when Pakeha Maori had significent political, economic and social importance in tribal New Zealand." While males made up the bulk of the Pakeha Maori, a few women were also adopted into the tribal environment. Along with biographical accounts of the intergration of the male majority, the author has also examined female experiences, including the extraordinary life of Caroline Perrett, kidnapped in Taranaki in the 1870s, when she was about eight years-old then, 50 years later, discovered and identified by a relative at Whakatene. She chose to remain living as a Maori, being contented with that way of life. Trevor Bentley's collection of this series of stories casts a new, and illuminating, light on early Maori-Pakeha assimilation, also providing interestring passages about Maori triblal life as witnessed by the Pakeha Maori, when it was then little altered from its historic pre-European ways, activities and cultures. First edition of 1999, 270 pages including appendix, references, endnotes listing, illustrations info, bibliography, Maori terms glossary and index. Illustrated throughout with in-text b/w photos/art. Card covers VG with colour art front panel, text block excellent, no inscrptions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. 270 Seiten Medienartikel von Book Broker Berlin sind stets in gebrauchsfähigem ordentlichen Zustand. Dieser Artikel weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. Ausgabejahr: 1999. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren (Buchschnitt oben etwas befleckt). Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 454.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. A look at one of the great untold stories in New Zealand history. This fascinating story is illustrated with many early sketches and photographs. Fading on cover. An advance copy which includes an insert from the publisher on inside front cover. 270 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.

1st, reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text photos, base spine rubbed, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), minor edgewear cover corner tips. 270 pp. Trevor Bentley describes one of the most extraordinary stories in New Zealand's history, that of the Pakeha Maori. In the early part of the last century several thousand runaway seamen and escaped convicts settled in Maori communities. Jacky Marmon, John Rutherford, Charlotte Badger and many others - this is their largely untold story. They were regarded as unsavoury renegades by the European settlers, but amongst Maori they were welcomed. This is the first ever book devoted solely to the Pakeha Maori, and the author describes in fascinating detail how the strangers entered Maori communities, adapted to tribal life and played a significant role in the merging of the two cultures.

Soft Cover. Zustand: F-. Second Printing. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, publisher's RSM to first page, faintly marked); pp. 270, with illustrations. A near fine copy.