Behold the moon
Subtitle: the European occupation of the Dunedin district, 1770-1848
By: Peter Entwisle.
Publisher: Port Daniel Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dunedin, NZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Whalers (Persons) -- New Zealand -- Dunedin -- History.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- New Zealand -- Dunedin -- History.; Dunedin (N.Z.) -- History.; Dunedin (N.Z.) -- Race relations -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.
"Reveals ... how the theft of a preserved Māori head in 1810 sparked a ... feud that claimed ... 130 lives and saw the ransacking of the Weller's whaling village on Otago Harbour in the 1830s"--P. [4] of cover.