{"product_id":"come-on-shore-and-we-will-kill-and-eat-you-all-a-new-zealand-story-9781596911260","title":"Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman  that inspires a graceful  revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand  told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries  and partly as the story of Christina Thompsons marriage to a Maori man. As an American graduate student studying literature in Australia  Thompson traveled on vacation to New Zealand  where she met a Maori known as \"Seven.\" Their relationship was one of opposites: he was a tradesman  she an intellectual; he came from a background of rural poverty  she from one of middle-class privilege; he was a \"native \" she descended directly from \"colonizers.\" Nevertheless  they shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own. In this extraordinary book  which grows out of decades of research  Thompson explores the meaning of cross-cultural contact and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific  beginning with Abel Tasmans discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cooks famous circumnavigations of 176979. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world  from Australia to Hawaii to tribal NewZealand and finally to a house in New England that has ghosts of its own  Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All brings to life a lush variety of characters and settings. Yet at its core  it is the story of two people who  in making a life and a family together  bridge the gap between two worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646936637493,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596911263","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596911260.jpg?v=1781682259","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/come-on-shore-and-we-will-kill-and-eat-you-all-a-new-zealand-story-9781596911260","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}