Quest for Origins Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?

Name: Quest for Origins Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?
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ISBN: 9780143018575

ISBN-10: 0143018574

ISBN-13: 9780143018575

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kerry Howe

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Recent media speculation about who 'discovered' New Zealand (the Spanish? Phoenician? Portugese?) has provided continuing evidence of New Zealanders 'fascination with our origins and where we've come from. The Spanish helmet, the Tamil bell, the Korotahi bird, and so on and so on. All focus on other explanations of our origins and settlement. Was Tasman really the first? What about the Spanish galleon buried in the sand off Dargaville? And didn't the Maori come from South America? Or were they descended from the Hopi Indians of the US?. In this provocative and fascinating book Professor Kerry Howe traces dozens of explanations and theories of both pre-Maori and pre-European settlement and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Unknown Publisher
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long
Language: English