Singing the trail : the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand / John McCrystal
- Bib ID:
- 8059211
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McCrystal, John, author
- Description:
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- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2019
- ©2019
- 275 pages, 137 pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour facsimiles, colour maps ; 29 x 26 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760633592 (hardback)
- Summary:
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“The very first maps, oral maps made by Polynesian and Maori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakla and stories that showed directions. Hundreds of years later, Abel Tasman made the first attempt at a physical maps followed more than a century later by James Cook, whose more detailed map was made as he circumnavigated Aortearoa. Once the detail of the coastline was filled in, it was the turn of the surveyors, explorers, gold diggers and politicians to negotiate the internal detail. The story of these maps is also the story of Aeotearoa New Zealand.”--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-273)
- Subject:
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- Cartography -- New Zealand -- History -- Pictorial works
- Maps -- History -- Pictorial works
- Explorers -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- First contact with Europeans -- History
- Historical geography
- New Zealand -- Maps -- Pictorial works
- New Zealand -- Discovery and exploration -- History
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Also Titled:
- Story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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