Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.

Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.

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Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.

Publisher: AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1959.

True first edition, first printing with buff coloured boards. (The reprint has green boards). Very good hardback with fair jacket. Slight bumping and rubbing to boards. Binding firm, foxing to end papers, owner inscription to ffep. Pages very good. Jacket is rubbed, chipped and foxed with some tears to edges. pp.567, Plates, Tables, Map.

Rare signed copy of a major tribal history.

PART 1. Traditional history to the end of the seventeenth century: Te Arawa canoe - The voyage of Te Arawa - Whangaparaoa Tia and Ngatoroirangi journey to Taupo - The burning of Te Arawa - The curse of Manaia Aboriginal tribes of Taupo and the Bay of Plenty - The Mataatua CanoeTuwharetoa, the man The romance of Hinemoa Ngati Hotu - The people of Maruiwi - The sons of Tuwharetoa march on Taupo - The destruction of Maruiwi - Ngati Whiti - Ngati Apa -Tutetawha I and Te Rapuhoro - Ngati Tama - Te Rangiita - Tamamutu - The Kahukura of Tamamutu - Tunohopu - Tutetawha II - Tutetawha II and Manunui die in Waikato -

PART 2. Eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century: The Tarawera district - Te Rangituamatotoru - The seen face of Taihakoa - Herea (Te Heuheu Tukino I) and Te Wakaiti - Mananui (Te Heuheu Tukino II) - An Ariki's grave is desecrated - Te Kupenga- The fall of Motuopuhi - Te Wera journeys to Hawkes Bay - Te Rotoatara - Early battles at Te Rotoatara - Te Kahupara, 1822 - Paraihe journeys to Nukutaurua - The Pakake, 1825 - Tiwaewae and Te Mautaranui - Wakaunua - Kaiuku - Omakukara - Ngati Tuwharetoa at Manawatu - Patoka - Te Heuheu journeys to Waitotara - The deaths of Te Whakarau and Tauteka are avenged

PART 3. Latter half of the nineteenth century and twentieth century: The introduction of Christianity to Taupo - Adrian Langerwerf - The Presbyterian Maori Mission - Thomas Samuel Grace - The Pukawa Mission Station is abandoned

Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.
Tuwharetoa. A History of the Maori People of the Taupo District By John Te Grace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION.