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Roberts, Jack,

The bird talker = Te pūkōrero manu / Pūkōrero manu Jack Roberts. - Nelson, New Zealand : The Copy Press, 2018. - x, 247 pages ; 22 cm

"[This] takes us to a time before the European occupation of Aotearoa, where order and tradition dictates a life of learning for the young tohunga-tā-manu, Turi; a peaceful time punctuated bu the violence and tragedy of intertribal conflict. Set in ... Wainui Bay in the beautiful northwest of Te Waipounamu, an area known as Mohua in pre-European times ... filled with a rich bounty of birds which Turi, through his great friend and mentor Tāwhiri, would trap and supply to his Ngati Whērangi people of the Takapau hapū"--Adapted from cover.

ISBN: 9780473464608 0473464608

Subjects--Personal Names:
Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 1603?-1659 --Travel--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Maori (New Zealand people)--Social life and customs --Juvenile fiction.
Maori (New Zealand people)--History--Fiction.
Fowling--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand--History--To 1840--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
Historical fiction.