Judith Binney

Te Kairanga prize winner- NZ Post Book Awards Ceremony

Guests at the inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards Ceremony, on Friday 27 August at the Langham Hotel Auckland, were invited to take their pick and bravely predict the book they thought would win the coveted ‘Book of Year Award’ to be announced later that night.

The prize was a case of delicious Te Kairanga Wine, generously provided by our wine sponsor for the event, Te Kairanga Wines of Martinborough, www.tkwine.co.nz

The winner who correctly guessed the Book of the Year 2010, Encircled Lands by Judith Binney (published by Bridget Williams Books), was

Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921

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.