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Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
Second hand, 2009 first edition, hard cover with DJ. "Aphrodite's Islandis a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this g ...Show more
Aphrodite's Island - The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond
$67.00 NZD
Category: Booksellers 2011 | Reading Level: good
Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of these societies' shar ...Show more
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Pakeha 1773-1815 by Anne Salmond
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.' -Michael King, North & South Anne Salmond's extraordinary Between Worldsbegins with the arrival of Cook's second expedition in 1773 and takes the story through to 1815, with the establishment of the first British missionary settlement in the Bay of Islands. ...Show more
Bligh - William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. 2011 first edition, hard cover with DJ. Jacket has some bruising and signs of wear. Previous owners name on title page. Evidence of sticky label remnants on front cover In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in ...Show more
Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
"In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life in a ...Show more
Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
$82.95 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspir ...Show more
Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings by Anne Salmond
$50.00 NZD
Category: Ceremonies & Celebrants
When Maori people gather for a Hui, they have immediate access to an ancestral world which remains a living reality for as long as the hui lasts. Hui incorporate all Maori ceremonial gatherings- openings of new marae, tangihanga (funerals), hurahanga kohatu (unveilings), birthdays and anniversaries, and ...Show more
Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings by Anne Salmond
$39.99 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
When Maori gather for a hui, they have immediate access to a world of history, mythology and traditions which remain a vital reality for as long as the hui lasts. Hui incorporate all Maori ceremonial gatherings: openings of new marae, tangihanga (funerals), hurahanga k
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$69.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes, and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this remo ...Show more
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good-very good
This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the ...Show more
Two Worlds: First Meetings Between the Maori and Pakeha 1642-1772 by Anne Salmond
$60.00 NZD
Category: Maori
'Professor Salmond has written a remarkable book. Remarkable for its meticulous research, for its ability to grip the reader's attention; but most of all, remarkable that no-one has done anything quite like it before in the exploration of New Zealand history.' -Naylor Hillary, The Press Two Worldsis Ann ...Show more
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