Between Worlds
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143772170
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $55.00
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Between Worlds

Early Exchanges Between Maori and Pakeha 1773-1815

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An epic, award-winning account of Pakeha-Maori relations immediately following Captain Cook's voyages to New Zealand.

‘Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.’
—Michael King, North & South

Anne Salmond’s extraordinary Between Worlds begins 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. It describes Cook’s second and third voyages, telling of a time when white settlers first lived on the shores of New Zealand, often joining Maori communities – the first so-called Pakeha-Maori. These Maori communities were working out their own strategies for dealing with the strangers in their midst. New ways of living began to emerge between Maori and European.

Between Worlds redefines or understanding of the earliest days of Maori and European interaction and forces us to rethink New Zealand’s shared history.

‘There is perhaps no scholar working in Oceania better equipped in knowledge, skills and sentiment to write “between worlds” history . . . That, I think, is the supreme grace of Anne Salmond’s work.’
—Greg Dening, Australian Historical Studies
  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780143772170
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

Anne Salmond

Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. One of New Zealand's most prominent anthropologists and historians, Professor Salmond is the author of Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings; Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman; and Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (winner of a Wattie Book Award in 1981) which she co-wrote with Eruera Stirling.

Among her other acclaimed works are Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642–1772; Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773–1815 (winner of the Ernest Scott Prize in 1998); The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in 2004); Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti; and Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (a finalist in the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards).

She received the CBE for services to literature and the Maori people in 1988 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history in 1995. In 2009, she was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) for her excellence in scientific research. In the 2021 New Year's Honours she was awarded an Order of New Zealand (ONZ).

She lives in Devonport, Auckland.

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