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The Strongest God

Heretaunga Pat Baker

出版	Cape Catley, 1990
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	09085612539780908561254
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MUhaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"This historical novel ... brings a ... new perspective to events during the New Zealand Wars. Traditional Maori beliefs were challenged by European concepts. Maori and missionary tragically failed to understand each other's gods. Pai Marire, the new religion which the Hauhau brought to Opotiki, was based on the wandering Jews of the Old Testament. The religion of the new settlers often seemed to be based on money, power and land. This book is about the men and women of the 1860s, the Reverend Carl Volkner and his wife Emma, the Whakatohea leaders Nikora and Mihiterina and the chiefs and tribespeople together with visiting traders and the businessmen of Auckland. [It] is a story of conflict between gods aold and new, between the old ways of the tribes and the new ways of the individual, between those who belonged to the land and those who wanted to own it. It is about people who sought peace in too many different ways, and who were locked in an escalating drama of confrontation and misunderstanding. It culminates in acts of violence which have reverberated down through the generations of both Maori and European New Zealanders. ..."--Jacket.