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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
by Christina Thompson
Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures.
"Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.... More...
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