First Encounters: The Early Pacific and European Narratives of Abel Tasman’s 1642 Voyage Holiday Cooking 21 February 1989

21 February 1989

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Christina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971)

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

which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theatre

First Encounters: The Early Pacific and European Narratives of Abel Tasman’s 1642 Voyage Holiday Cooking 21 February 1989This 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