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When Toawaka met Cook : stories of Te Whanganui o Hei - Mercury Bay / Richard Gates, John Steele .

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Maori Publisher: [Whitianga, New Zealand] : Mercury Bay 250 Trust, 2019Description: 127 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780473477875
  • 0473477874
Subject(s): Summary: "An account of 12 extraordinary days in November 1769, when James Cook and his Endeavour crew met Ngāti Hei chief Toawaka and his people in Mercury Bay, Coromandel, in a historic and groundbreaking encounter between Māori and European civilisations"-- Cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 993.323 GAT Available T00819961
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

When Toawaka Met Cook explores the 12 extraordinary days that Cook and his crew spent with the Mercury Bay tribe, the Ngati Hei. It goes into detail on remarkable events such as the introduction of the potato to New Zealand, Te Horeta's special gift, and the build-up to the first powhiri between the crew of the Endeavour and the Ngati Hei people. When Toawaka Met Cook is the first book to go into depth on this time that very literally shaped our shared culture.

"The authors especially acknowledge the contributions of: Ngāti Hei - Joe Davis"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

"An account of 12 extraordinary days in November 1769, when James Cook and his Endeavour crew met Ngāti Hei chief Toawaka and his people in Mercury Bay, Coromandel, in a historic and groundbreaking encounter between Māori and European civilisations"-- Cover.

In English with some text in M�aori.

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