Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All : A New Zealand Story

Intro; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue: New Zealand, 1642; 1. Paihia; 2. Abominably Saucy; 3. Mangonui; 4. Terra Incognita; 5. Present Perfect; 6. The Venus; 7. A Natural Gentleman; 8. A Dangerous People; 9. Smoked Heads; 10. Turtonâ#x80;#x99;s Land Deeds; 11. Nana Miri; 12. Hawaiki; 13. Once Were Warriors; 14. Gu, Choki, Pa; 15. Matariki; 16. Thieves and Indian-Killers; 17. One Summer; Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Note; Acknowledgments; Epilogue: New Zealand, 1642; Maps; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; A Note on the Author; A Note on Pronunciation and Spelling; Imprint;In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand. Despite their significant differences, Thompson and her husband, Seven, share a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own. Thompson explores cultural displacement through the ages and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642. Yet at its core, this is the story of two people who meet, fall in love, and are forever changed. A beautifully written, fiercely intelligent and boldly conceived book that puts the author's unlikely marriage to a Maori man into the context of the history of Western colonization of New Zealand and the South Pacific. 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 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man. As an American graduate student studying history in Australia, Thompson traveled to New Zealand and met a Maori known as "Seven." Their relationship is one of opposites: he is a tradesman, she is an intellectual; he comes from a background of rural poverty, she from one of middleclass privilege; he is a "native," she descends directly from "colonizers." Nevertheless, they shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own. In this book, which grows out of decades of reading and research, Thompson explores cultural displacement through the ages and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and Cook's circumnavigation of 1770. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand and finally to a house in New England that has ghosts of its own, Come on Shore brings to life a lush variety of characters and settings. Yet at its core, it is the story of two people who meet, fall in love, and are forever changed. "A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative...vivid and meticulously researched." - -San Francisco Chronicle In this extraordinary book, which grows out of decades of research, Thompson explores the meaning of cross-cultural contact and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cook's famous circumnavigations of 1769-79. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand and finally to a house in New England that has ghosts of its own, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All brings to life a lush variety of characters and settings. Yet at its core, it is the story of two people who, in making a life and a family together, bridge the gap between two worlds Intro Title Page Contents Dedication Epigraph Prologue: New Zealand, 1642 1. Paihia 2. Abominably Saucy 3. Mangonui 4. Terra Incognita 5. Present Perfect 6. The Venus 7. A Natural Gentleman 8. A Dangerous People 9. Smoked Heads 10. Turtonâ#x80 #x99 s Land Deeds 11. Nana Miri 12. Hawaiki 13. Once Were Warriors 14. Gu, Choki, Pa 15. Matariki 16. Thieves and Indian-Killers 17. One Summer Authorâ#x80 #x99 s Note Acknowledgments Epilogue: New Zealand, 1642 Maps Glossary Selected Bibliography A Note on the Author A Note on Pronunciation and Spelling Imprint