COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALL Christina Thompson - An Unlikely Love Story (New Zealand)

COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALL: the story of cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris told partly by history and partly by the story of Christina's marriage to a Maori man.

USED BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION: clean with light reading to corners and spine; strong binding; pages are clean and tanning lightly with age; small tear on first (blank) page. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: What happens when two utterly different cultures meet and then collide? Beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and Cook's circumnavigation in 1770, this compelling account explores many of the themes and episodes of New Zealand's early history, from the establishment of the first Christian mission, to the annexation of New Zealand by the British, to the beginnings of the Maori rebellion and the outbreak of the Maori Wars. But this book goes beyond New Zealand's history to the heart of a present-day mixed marriage in which these two cultural and historical strands are intertwined.It is at once a cross-cultural love story and a search for understanding about what happens when two cultures collide. 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” brings to life a lush variety of characters and gorgeous settings. Christina Thompson seamlessly blends memoir, anthropology, romance, travelogue and history to reveal the ways in which the past is alive in all of us.

Book Details

Code: SKU1965

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 270

Published: 2008 by Bloomsbury, UK

ISBN: 0747598150

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