Woven by water : histories from the Whanganui River / David Young.
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TextPublication details: Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers, 1998.Description: xii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780908975624
- Histories from the Whanganui River
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The Mana of the Maori is by water. No one, here, carrying the same thing that I'm carrying today." --Titi Tihu
In living memory, before the Whanganui River became a tawny mass seeming to flow upside down, the river bed was clean stone and the water of the river "tasted like kowhai. The trees used to grow over the river and drop into the water, and the water tasted like kowhai."
This is a book of many river people--a "hidden" prophet, living with over a thousand followers at a place now deserted; a Pakeha-Maori, making gunpowder using charcoal made from willows grown from cuttings taken from Napoleon's grave; a riverboat magnate, building a fiefdom on 'the Rhine of Maoriland'; a highly decorated soldier, fighting as a kupapa yet fighting for tino rangatiratanga; arsenic and flour poisoners--and always, the river itself.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-315) and index.
Crossings -- He ara waka -- Baptisms -- Midstream -- He matapihi -- Gatherings -- He poropiti -- Betrayal -- Tuna -- Clearings -- Te iho -- Powers.
This volume begins in the early 1800s and traces oral and archival stories of the Whanganui River. Each chapter opens with a present-day encounter with Maori informants who take the author back in time to explore another aspect of the history.
T00853013 has a signed inscription from the author on title page: "To Jim, a river traveller."