First Encounters: The Early Pacific and European Narratives of Abel Tasman’s 1642 Voyage Holiday Cooking "A compelling and important history

"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear

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The memories stored in the water and peat

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First Encounters: The Early Pacific and European Narratives of Abel Tasman’s 1642 Voyage Holiday Cooking "A compelling and important historyThis important new work on Abel Tasmans voyage of 1642 explores the earliest encounters between Europeans and indigenous people in New Zealand, Tonga, and Tasmania, in particular offering a fresh perspective on Tasmans extraordinary encounter with Ngti Tumatakokiri in Moordenaers Baij (Golden Bay). It also includes the first ever complete English translation of an important resource for the voyage from Nicolaes Witsens 1705 book Noord en Oost Tartarye