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010 2007044074
020 9781596911260
020 1596911263
035 (OCoLC)180989437
035 (Sirsi) i9781596911260
035 (OCoLC)180989437|z(OCoLC)166367244
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050 00 DU423.F48|bT48 2008
082 00 993.01|222
100 1 Thompson, Christina,|d1959-
245 10 Come on shore and we will kill and eat you all :|ba New
Zealand story /|cChristina Thompson.
250 First U.S. edition.
264 1 New York :|bBloomsbury :|bDistributed to the trade by
Macmillan,|c[2008]
264 4 |c©2008
300 xiv, 270 pages :|bmaps ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-270).
505 0 Prologue : New Zealand, 1642 -- Paihia -- Abominably saucy
-- Mangonui -- Terra incognita -- Present perfect -- The
venus -- A natural gentleman -- A dangerous people --
Smoked heads -- Turston's land deeds -- Nana Miri --
Hawaiki -- Once were warriors -- Gu, choki, pa -- Matariki
-- Thieves and indian-killers -- One summer -- Epilogue :
New Zealand, 1642.
520 As an American graduate student studying literature in
Australia, Thompson traveled on vacation to New Zealand,
where she met a Maori known as Seven. Their relationship
was one of opposites: he was a tradesman, she an
intellectual; he came from a background of rural poverty,
she from one of middle-class privilege; he was a native,
she descended directly from colonizers. Nevertheless, they
shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to
depart from the customs of their families and forge a life
together on their own. Thompson explores the meaning of
cross-cultural contact and the fascinating history of
Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel
Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cook's
famous circumnavigations of 1769-79. Transporting us back
and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to
Hawaii to tribal New Zealand and finally to a house in New
England that has ghosts of its own, Come on Shore and We
Will Kill and Eat You All brings to life a lush variety of
characters and settings. Yet at its core, it is the story
of two people who, in making a life and a family together,
bridge the gap between two worlds.
600 10 Thompson, Christina,|d1959-|xMarriage.
650 0 Māori (New Zealand people)|xFirst contact with other
peoples.
650 0 Europeans|zNew Zealand|xHistory.
650 0 Culture conflict|zNew Zealand|xHistory.
650 0 Frontier and pioneer life|zNew Zealand.
650 0 Interracial marriage|zNew Zealand|vCase studies.
650 0 Americans|zNew Zealand|vBiography.
650 0 Māori (New Zealand people)|vBiography.
651 0 New Zealand|xRace relations|xHistory|y18th century.
651 0 New Zealand|xRace relations|xHistory|y19th century.
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
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856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
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