with an eye on a flickering, shifting other. Ruth France, who died in 1968, finds herself between ‘headlands we did not know were headlands’ – France mastered the art of dislocation, her experience never quite fitted the map. Bernadette Hall’s twist in the tale, her superb tripwire,...
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Honestly, we haven’t done this on the South Island yet, but we did to a tree canopy walk inRotorua, and it was amazing. With similar specs and great reviews, I am sure this one is just as cool. The Hokitika Tree Top Walk is set in the local temperate rainforest. Walking long ste...
Great hui had been held over the previous decade, at which chiefs from most parts of New Zealand had talked about how to unite against the Pakeha, especially to stem his insatiable appetite for land. The first European to spend time with Maori, James Cook, had surmised: “…it doth not ...
practitioners who connect to plants through Mātauranga Māori (Maori knowledge and comprehension of the visible and invisible universe). It is the colonisers’ pagan and Christian gods who underpin the spiritual connection between plants with humans in this collection. Nevertheless, I enjoyedWaybread ...
Woke up today inside a garbage bag. Good investment if i don't say so myself. Misty morning, like taking a freezing steam bath. I watched Grimm's fairytale cartoons in the kitchen w/ some long-haired Maoris who never looked over or acknowledge me. They were the only other people in ...
names(tmp)[1:2] <- c("ApproxLocation", "VotingPlace") # in some of the data there are annoying subheadings in the second column. We can # identify these as rows that return NA when you sum up where the votes should be tmp <- tmp[!is.na(apply(tmp[, -(1:2)], 1, function...
The North Island’s geographical sites already had a lot of Maori names while “the South Island had more than its fair share of dour old Scottish surveyors with a droll sense of humour”. Read more Geo News Good to bee back Our colonisers sent us bumblebees, and now they want ...
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Nestled on the picturesque Banks Peninsula, Akaroa is a captivating town that offers a unique blend of French and Maori cultures. This charming coastal settlement is just an hour's drive from Christchurch, making it a popular day trip destination for both locals and tourists. Akaroa is renowned...