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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

A New Zealand Story

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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

By: Christina Thompson
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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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 middle-class 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.

©2008 Christina Thompson (P)2020 Tantor Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Oceania Women
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an interesting account of one person's experience. some of the pronunciation was a bit off, but to be expected from anybody speaking a new language.

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Listened to this after The Sea People and found some common threads of NZ and polynesia running through it. It made me homesick, and remember fishing off the Mangonui wharf as a child. As someone who is married across cultures, I just wonder if it was really as smooth and easy as it sounded for her family.

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I am a New Zealander. My mother is Maori and my father Pakeha (Caucasian with some Maori). The story is not significant to anything else we see and understand. The title is something I feel is wrongfully used. It portrays our Maori histrory as barberic and primitive. We were not. That was the history Caucasians made up in an attempt to water down the Caucasuian colonisation of Maori. Portraying Maori as people to be saved.

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