Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All - Christina Thompson • BookLikes (ISBN:1608196380)

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

by: Christina Thompson (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781608196388 (1608196380)

Publish date: November 1st 2010

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages no: 288

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Travel, Autobiography, Memoir, History, Book Club, Culture, Anthropology

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Osho rated it

12 years ago

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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...

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Telynor's Library, and then some rated it

13 years ago

http://telynor.booklikes.com Telynor's Library, and then some 3.0

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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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