Hard by the Cloud House
Published on 11. April 2024
184 pages
978-1-991016-81-2 (ISBN)
Description
The legend of Te Hokioi, the extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, leads Peter Walker from a Canterbury sheep run to the Rare Books Room of the British Library and to ' sacred' Raiatea in Polynesia, as he uncovers the story of the predator which once ruled over the Southern Alps.Was this bird, whose existence was confirmed by scientists only in 2009, the Rukh of Arab legends? Does that mean that medieval Islamic mariners were once blown far into the Pacific, saw the great raptor and made it back home to tell the tale?From the calamitous encounter of South Island Maori with colonisation to the glories of tenth-century Baghdad, Hard by the Cloud House is a heady mix of history, memoir, science and mythology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
New Zealand
Illustrations
30 Illustrations, black and white
File size
2,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-991016-81-2 (9781991016812)
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Peter Walker
Hard by the Cloud House
Book
04/2024
Massey University Press
€28.50
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