One Hundred Havens

£35.24 £46.99

One Hundred Havens

Name: One Hundred Havens
Brand: Massey University Press
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The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds

Written by Helen Beaglehole

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The many bays, coves and steeply rising hills of the Marlborough Sounds create some of New Zealand’s most glorious, but challenging, environments.

Māori carved out a living there over hundreds of years, but as Pākehā settlers farmed, milled, mined, fished and chased the tourist dollar they transformed the Sounds. Māori lost their land, language and way of life. Both groups had to overcome obstacles that ranged from the merely difficult to the nearly impossible, but Māori faced additional systemic legal and economic barriers.

History continues to play out here in complex ways — Māori and Pākehā, land and sea, boom and bust, locals and tourists. These multiple strands are brought together for the first time in a wide-ranging, engrossing and richly illustrated account of the Sounds and its resourceful and resilient peoples.

Helen Beaglehole is a Wellington historian who has spent over 40 years sailing and exploring in the Marlborough Sounds. Having written well reviewed books for children and young adults, she has since published well received histories: Lighting the Coast: A history of New Zealand’s lighthouse system, Always the Sound of the Sea: The daily lives of New Zealand’s lighthouse system and Fire in the Hills: A history of rural firefighting in New Zealand. She has also contributed to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and Te Ara, New Zealand’s online encyclopedia.

ISBN-13: 9780995143197
Publisher: Massey University Press
Imprint: Massey University Press
Publication date: 22 September 2022
Format: Paperback
Pages: 504
Dimensions: 230 x 163 mm
Language: English