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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori - History
`Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan `Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude For more than a millennium, Polynesians occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand t ...Show more
Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Myths & Legends
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama ...Show more
Kei hea a Spot? (Where's Spot? Maori Edition) by Eric Hill
$20.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Language
Kei Hea a Spot? is a Maori-language edition of Eric Hill's bestselling lift-the-flap story, Where's Spot? Ka kino a Spot! Ko te wa kai. Kei hea ranei ia? In Spot's first adventure tamariki can join in the search for the mischievous puppy by lifting the flaps on every page to see where he is hiding. The ...Show more
Maori Made Fun: 200+ Puzzles & Games to Boost Your Reo by Scotty Morrison; Stacey Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Language
A brand-new way to have fun with te reo Māori.Māori Made Fun contains over 200 word games, puzzles and activities - a jam-packed box of te reo tricks for everyone. Whether you're already a confident speaker of Māori or just getting started, use te reo Māori every day or almost never, have one hour spar ...Show more
First Flight: A Collection of Stories from Ngati Kahungunu Ki Wairarapa by Maxine Hemi
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14
This is a collection of short stories for children and young adults about people and events of Ngati Kahungunu, an iwi or Maori tribe of Aotearoa New Zealand. The majority of the stories focus on key events in the life of Ngati Kahungunu chief Nukupewapewa. The other stories in the collection tell abou ...Show more
The Seven Stars of Matariki by Toni Rolleston-Cummins
$22.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Myths & Legends
This is a contemporary myth of love, magic, and adventure that tells the story of how Matariki/the Pleiades star cluster came into being. Recommended for ages 5-9.
Maori Made Easy Workbook 2/Kete 2 by Scotty Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Language
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a ...Show more
Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of the Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors by Andrew Crowe
$60.00 NZD
Category: Maori - History
Pathway of the Birds explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world's largest ocean in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory. Were Polynesians adept at navigating return voyages or had they settled the P ...Show more
Maori Peoples of New Zealand by Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
$55.00 NZD
Category: Maori - History | Reading Level: very good
The first publication tocome out of the online Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand project tells the story of the tangata whenua of Aotearoa, from their journeys across the vast Pacific Ocean to the histories of all the major iwi, including the contemporary issues they face today. No other book brings to ...Show more
Haerenga : Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe (BWB Texts) by O Malley V.
$15.00 NZD
Category: Maori - History | Series: BWB Texts
Māori and Europeans were encountering one another for the first time not just along the shorelines of New Zealand but also on the streets of Melbourne, Liverpool and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Māori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety o ...Show more
English/Maori-Maori/EnglishDictionary by Bruce Biggs
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori - Language
This English-Maori and Maori-English dictionary has over 4000 entries in each section. It provides information on parts of speech; practical help with pronunciation of Maori words; and it relates to contemporary life by including words from English commonly used by today's Maori speakers.
Waka Taua: The Maori War Canoe by Jeff Evans
$35.00 NZD
Category: Maori - History
A Maori war canoe being paddled at full speed is an awesome sight. Thanks to the renaissance in canoe building, more and more traditional waka taua are on the waterways, and feature in major events like the Queen's Jubilee. Waka Taua gives a concise introduction to all aspects of the war canoe: its hist ...Show more