Amiria: the life story of a Māori woman - Anne Salmond
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Life old and new through the eyes of a Maori elder.
This is the story of Amiria s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond.
Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa in the late nineteenth century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother's raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her schooldays, her taumau (arranged) marriage to Eruera Stirling, farming on 'The Coast' and latter days in Auckland, where the Stirlings lived as prominent elders until their deaths in 1983.
First published by Reed in 1976, this book won third prize in the Wattie book awards in 1977.
Penguin, 2005. Trade paperback, 184 pages with appendices, bibliography and index.
Condition: secondhand paperback in very good condition.