Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
Subtitle: A New Zealand Story
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan; Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: July 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781596911260
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; Australia & New Zealand - New Zealand; General; History / Australia & Oceania; Australia & New Zealand - General; Culture conflict; Europeans; First contact with Europeans; Maori (New Zealand people); New Zealand
Description: Thompson explores the history of Europeans in the South Pacific and the meaning of cross-cultural contact, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cook's famous circumnavigations of 1769-1779. 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 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.