Whina. A biography of Whina Cooper. By Michael King

Whina A Biography of Whina Cooper By Michael King.

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983, first edition.

Good hardback with jacket, minor rubbing and bumping to edges, binding firm, name to ffep, foxing to end-papers, back corner quite dented, minor ripple to top internal corners of some pages. Jacket has light shelf-wear with some chipping, small loss to front flap, foxing to reverse side.

Contents: Introduction -- Prologue: The fight for the mudflats -- 1. A Hokianga inheritance -- 2. Her father's daughter -- 3. Towards independence -- 4. Fall and rise -- 5. Queen of the North -- 6. Amazon excavator -- 7. Exile -- 8. Precarious homecoming -- 9. Maori Women's Welfare League -- 10. Mother of the people -- 11. Maori Land March -- 12. Further crusades -- 13. Return to the Hokianga. Appendices (A: Genealogy ; B: Genealogy ; C: Discovery of the Hokianga ; D: Evidence to the Royal Commission on Native Affairs, 1934 ; E: Report to the Maori Women's Welfare League Conference, 1952 ; F: Report to the Maori Women's Welfare League Conference, 1957 ; G: Matakite song). All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand.

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