Notes

eng mao
127 pages
colour illustrations.
The authors especially acknowledge the contributions of: Ngāti Hei - Joe Davis. (Title page verso) Contents: Origins -- Te Atawa's arrival -- Voyagers to Mercury Bay -- Cook's mission -- Endeavour's arrival -- The great Toawaka -- The 'gift' of a potato -- The power of the musket -- Finding longitude -- Te pōwhiri - welcome at Wharetāewa -- The restoration of 'mauri' -- Ngāti Hei's rich larder -- Waving the flag -- Up the Waihou -- Cook and the kauri -- Who was James Cook? -- The Ngāti Hei legacy -- On to Waitangi.
Summary: An account of 12 extraordinary days in November 1769, when James Cook and his Endeavour crew met Ngāti Hei chief Toawaka and his people in Mercury Bay, Coromandel, in a historic and groundbreaking encounter between Māori and European civilisations. (Cover)
In English with some text in Māori.