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496 pages
maps.
Previous edition: 2012. Contents includes: Part 1. The story -- 1. Polynesian voyagers -- 2. The Horouta canoe -- 3. New settlers -- 4. Aotea and Horouta canoes -- 5. The early leaders (Nga Ariki) : part one -- 6. The early leaders (Nga Ariki) : part two -- 7. Ngai Tahu (The exodus from Whangara ; Ngai Tahu of the South Island ; Ngai Tamanuhiri ; 4. Ngai Tama ; 5. Ngati Paea ; 6. Ngati Konoti ; 7. Ngati Rakai, part of the Ngai Tawiri) -- 8. The Rongowhakaata tribe -- 9. Ngati Kahungunu -- 10. Te Aitanga a Mahaki -- 11. Ngati Porou -- 12. Wahineiti : part one -- 13. Wahineiti : part two, Te Aitanga a Hauiti -- 14. Ngati Ira -- 15. Ngati Ruanuku -- 16. Ngati Pokai -- 17. Ngati Ruawaipu -- Part 2. Nga whakapapa genealogical charts -- Part 3. The maps -- 1. Blocks of land -- 2. Hills and taumata (hilltops) -- 3. Iwi and hapu (tribes and subtribes) -- 4. Pa sites -- 5. Place names -- 6. Points of interest -- 7. Streams and rivers -- 8. Tipuna or ancestors.
Summary: Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretch from East Cape to northern Hawke's Bay. Assembled through painstaking historical and genealogical research over more than 70 years by the late Rongowhakaata Halbert and his family, this outstanding work of scholarship is destined to serve the needs of all New Zealanders, and especially the peoples of Gisborne and the East Coast, for generations to come. (Book jacket)