Singing the Trail: The Story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand by John McCrystal

Singing the Trail: The Story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand

John McCrystal

276 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history reference travel informative medium-paced
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The very first maps were oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers which were waypoints, described as "survey pegs of memory," lists of places in songs, chants, karakia, and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, the D...

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