Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds

Author(s): Salmon D Anne

NZ Non Fiction

Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide.

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Shortlisted for 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards - The Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction.

"This is an absorbing historical narrative with bigger and bolder political and ethical arguments. The book is engagingly written and a worthy successor to Salmond's Two Worlds and Between Worlds, from which it picks up chronologically, as well as to more recent works on Cook and Bligh." - Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge

"This... was an absolute joy to read. It engages in highly relevant and topical issues for all of us as New Zealanders. By anchoring our colonial history in contemporary issues of sovereignty and property, it has the potential to be a landmark book for Aotearoa New Zealand." - Jacinta Ruru, University of Otago and Nga Pae o te Maramatanga

Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland and author of books including Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings (1975, A.H. and A.W. Reed); Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman (1976, A.H. and A.W. Reed); Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (1980, Oxford University Press); Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 (1991, Viking Press, University of Hawai'i Press); Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815 (1997, Viking Press, University of Hawai'i Press); The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (2003, Penguin UK, Penguin NZ, Yale University Press); Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti (2007, University of California Press, Penguin NZ) and Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (2011, University of California Press, Penguin NZ). Among many honours and awards, she is an International Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; in 2013 she became New Zealander of the Year and winner of the Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

General Fields

  • : 9781869408657
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.966152
  • : June 2017
  • : 228mm X 152mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Salmon D Anne
  • : hardback with dustjacket
  • : English
  • : 305.800993
  • : very good
  • : 512
  • : Colour illustrations