Maori
A Photographic and Social History
by Michael King
Penguin Group, 2008, soft cover, 289pp

Maori by Michael King, is a book every New Zealander ( and anyone interested in Maori history) should own.

The multitude of photographs in the book show how things were in the recent Maori past; the text explores why such things were.  The two are grouped together because of Michael King's belief that we must learn about our past to understand the present.

Chapters include:

• Maoris in Photography
• The Years Before ( the settlement of Polynesia)
• Contact and Conflict (between Pakeha and Maori)
• Maori Life - dwellings, transport, huis, food gathering, etc
• Leadership - politics, religion
• Two Nations? - the divide between Pakeha and Maori
• Te Ao Hou - a new dawn