Treasures of Tāne

Plants of Ngāi Tahu
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-77550-295-1
Verlag: Huia Pub.

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

This book discusses traditional Maori uses of native plants of the South Island of New Zealand and traditions around them. The text describes the features and uses of each plant, listed alphabetically for quick reference. These stories of native plants of the South Island describe how Maori and Europeans grew and processed the plants, and it uncovers some surprising uses of native plants. Written by a journalist, the book is engaging, enlightening and user-friendly and is beautiful to browse and informative about native plants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tipa, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Tipa (Ng?i Tahu, Ng?ti Kahungunu) is a freelance journalist with more than forty years’ experience as a reporter and editor with metropolitan, community and farming publications. To reconnect with his Ng?i Tahu heritage, he researched a series of articles on traditional uses of New Zealand native plants that were on the Ng?i Tahu taonga plants list. This became a series of nearly fifty columns published in Te Karaka magazine over a period of ten years.