GENERAL NON-FICTION FINALIST
Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921
Judith Binney
Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 978-1-877242-44-1
RRP $89.99
Te Urewera was a sheltering heartland for those who lived there; for nineteenth-century Europeans, it was a forbidding wilderness. This richly illustrated history of Te Rohe Pōtae o Te Urewera over a hundred years contextualises Tūhoe’s never-ending quest for authority in their lands – a quest that has come again to the negotiating table.