TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, Jack,
TI  - The bird talker =: Te pūkōrero manu 
SN  - 9780473464608
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Nelson, New Zealand : 
PB  - The Copy Press, 
KW  - Tasman, Abel Janszoon,
KW  - Maori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fowling
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - To 1840
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "[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
ER  -