Redemption Songs - A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki by Judith Binney

This is a second-hand copy of the book Redemption Songs - A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki by Judith Binney. 

Condition: This is a used book in good condition. The cover has shelf-wear with rubbing and creasing. A previous owner has an inscription inside the front cover.

Publisher: Auckland University Press
Year: 1997
ISBN: 9781869401726
Format: Softback
Pages: 666
Condition: Used (Good)

Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki was one of the nineteenth century’s most significant leaders. In both war and peace, he sought to redeem his people and the land. Yet his reputation as a feared opponent of colonial forces obscured his achievements for generations. The causes of Te Kooti’s struggles are larger than personal injustice: he fought a war against land confiscation and illegal land purchases. This award-winning biography, published in 1995, shifted public perceptions of this remarkable man.

'[Redemption Songs] is written with love and mastery, it presents and explores the life of a charismatic, enigmatic and debatable man and the history he acted in and did much to shape, it magnificently assaults the problems of uniting biography and history set in a culture which is not the historian's...it marks an immense step forward in the interpretation of history in a multiplicity of cultures.' J. G. A. Pocock, New Zealand Books, October 1996"

‘I had Redemption Songs in the house for seven days before I had the courage to read it. I circled it warily, watching the way the sunlight glowed on the cover and the moonlight surrounded it with a halo. It was only on the eighth morning that I decided the time was propitious. I opened the cover, and the prophet Te Kooti Arikirangi came into the house...’ Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Listener, 16 December 1995"