Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
First published in 1958, this is the classic collection of myths relating to that cradle of Maori culture, Rotorua - with relevance across New Zealand Rotorua is one of New Zealand's most visited cities. It is impossible to avoid the area's Maori history and, in this book, it is easy to learn about the ...Show more
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
The Maori have a rich and colourful tradition of myth and legend - many of their most important and popular tales are retold in this classic, bestselling book. Written with the general reader in mind, the stories range from the creation of the world to the coming of life, death and knowledge. They incor ...Show more
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
Hongi Hika's invasion of the Rotorua area in 1823 is one of the most dramatic and daring assaults in New Zealand history. Armed with muskets, Hongi's forces had roamed the North Island seeking utu (revenge) for past slights. Te Arawa, inland and with their island stronghold of Mokoia on Lake Rotorua, fe ...Show more
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
Maori Tales of Long Ago is a fresh facsimile edition of a classic collection of sixteen stories adapted from Maori mythology for a young readership. The tales were originally published by A.W. & A.H. Reed during the late 1940s in two hardback volumes, Maori Tales of Long Ago and Wonder Tales of Maor ...Show more
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
Compiled by Murdoch Riley. Stories by Murdoch Riley, James Cowan, Alfred Grace, Thomas Lambert, Johannes Andersen, Richard Taylor, Hari Hongi (H.M. Strowell) etc.
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
Maori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional knowledge. Yet as Ross Calman points out in his introduction to this new edition, they are also simply great yarns - reflective of a time when telling and listening to stories was a key leisure activity in Maori ...Show more
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology
A book about Maori and their legends and customs involving birds - includes CD "Forest and Ocean" by Hirini Melbourne.
Category: Māori Legends & Mythology | Reading Level: good
This book was first published in 1946 as Myths and Legends of Maoriland, and subsequently reprinted four times before the second edition was published in 1958, followed by the third edition in 1961. It went on to become one of New Zealand's most recognised books of the genre, winning an Esther Glen meda ...Show more