TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones, Alison,
AU  - Jenkins, Kuni,
TI  - Tuai: a traveller in two worlds 
SN  - 9780947518806
AV  - DU422.82.T83 J65 2017
U1  - 993.1301092 23
PY  - 2017///.
CY  - Wellington, New Zealand : 
PB  - Bridget Williams Books, 
KW  - Tuai,
KW  - Te Ngareraumati (New Zealand people)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Kōrero taumata
KW  - reo
KW  - Noho-a-iwi
KW  - Haerenga
KW  - Kōrero nehe
KW  - Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: A Man Standing in a Canoe -- 1. Beyond the Horizon -- 2. The Go-Between -- 3. Bringing the Pākehā -- 4. Uneasy Friends -- 5. The Wide World -- 6. Surviving London -- 7. 'The Most Extraordinary District in the World' -- 8. Love, Kindness and Impossible Demands -- 9. Leaving England -- 10. A Long Goodbye -- 11. Lessons and Lemons -- 12. The Return -- 13. Tuai's Dilemma -- 14. Fear and Firepower -- 15. At War -- 16. Enter the French -- 17. Teaching About Māori Life
N2  - "In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually beneficial relationship with the people they knew as Pākehā. On his epic journey Tuai would visit exotic foreign ports, mix with teeming crowds in the huge metropolis of London, and witness the marvels of industrialisation at the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. With his lively travelling companion, Tītere, he would attend fashionable gatherings and sit for his portrait. He shared his deep understanding of Māori language and culture. And his missionary friends did their best to convert him to Christianity. But on returning to his Māori world in 1819, Tuai found there were difficult choices to be made. His plan to integrate new European knowledge and relationships into his Ngare Raumati community was to be challenged by the rapidly shifting politics of the Bay of Island."--Cover flap
ER  -