Singing the trail : the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
McCrystal, John2019
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Click and Collect for Singing the trail : the story of mapping Aotearoa New ZealandThe very first maps, oral maps made by Polynesian and Maori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakla and stories that showed directions. Hundreds of years later, Abel Tasman made the first attempt at a physical maps followed more than a century later by James Cook, whose more detailed map was made as he circumnavigated Aortearoa. Once the detail of the coastline was filled in, it was the turn of the surveyors, explorers, gold diggers and politicians to negotiate the internal detail. The story of these maps is also the story of Aeotearoa New Zealand.
Main title:
Singing the trail : the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand / John McCrystal.
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Imprint:
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2019.
Collation:
275 pages, 137 pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour facsimiles, colour maps ; 29 x 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-273)
ISBN:
9781760633592
Dewey class:
526.0993912.93
Language:
English
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Subject:
Maps -- History -- Pictorial worksExplorers -- New Zealand -- BiographyMaori (New Zealand people) -- First contact with Europeans -- HistoryCartography -- New Zealand -- History -- Pictorial worksNew Zealand -- Maps -- Pictorial worksNew Zealand -- Discovery and exploration -- HistoryNew Zealand -- Maps -- History
BRN:
366617
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 912.93 MACC | Available |
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