Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
“A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative…vivid and meticulously researched.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man,...
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“A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative…vivid and meticulously researched.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596911277 (1596911271)
ASIN: 1596911271
Publish date: July 7th 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 271
Edition language: English
A good effort to interweave personal and cultural histories. Thompson, an American graduate student in Australia, meets and marries a Maori New Zealander. She alternates between and blends the story of their relationship with the story of European first and later encounters with Maori, analyzing som...
I both liked and detested this book. A narrative that mixes the author's meeting her Maori husband and the life they built together in Boston and Australia, with too-brief snippets about the Maori encounters with Europeans. Parts of this book did work, but by the end, I was left with very mixed feel...
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