Encounters - The Creation of New Zealand - A History by Paul Moon

This is a second-hand copy of the book Encounters - The Creation of New Zealand - A History by Paul Moon.

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780143568506
Format: Softback
Pages: 431
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Encounters is the wide-ranging, audacious and gripping story of New Zealand's changing national identity, how it has emerged and evolved through generations. In this genre-busting book, historian Paul Moon delves into how the many and conflicting ideas about New Zealand came into being. Along the way, he explores forgotten crevices of the nation's character and exposes some of the mythology of its past and present. These include, for example, the earliest Māori myths and the 'mock sacredness' of the All Blacks in the twenty-first century; the role of nostalgia in our national character, both Māori and Pakeha; whether the explorer Kupe existed; the appeal of the Speight's 'Southern Man'; and ruminations on New Zealand art and landscape. What results is an absorbing piece of scholarship, an imaginative and exuberant epic that will challenge preconceptions about what it means to be a New Zealander, and how our country is understood. Lyrical, breathtaking and provocative, and illustrated with artworks throughout, Encounters offers an extraordinary insight into the beginnings of our country.