On Between Worlds

I want to mention that this book is not a mere narrative history of the early exchanges between Maori and Europeans (namely the British although the Dutch do fit in a bit), but is instead better read as a study of European and Maori forms of knowledge. Europeans and Maori had very different ways of seeing the world and, to make cultural contact meaningful, they had to reconcile these with one another. If read with this in mind, the book essentially becomes a work of art.