Te Ao Tawhito: The Old Worldcontemplates Mori origins in the blue continent, the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hap and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building communities and developing cultures. Early European visitors observed Mori society and changed it too, as more and more Europeans arrived, then stayed. Drawn from the landmark publication,Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History(2014),Te Ao Tawhitotells the great origin narrative of Mori history from 3000 BCAD 1830.

Te Ao Tawhito: The Old Worldcontemplates Mori origins in the blue continent, the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hap and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building communities and developing cultures. Early European visitors observed Mori society and changed it too, as more and more Europeans arrived, then stayed. Drawn from the landmark publication,Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History(2014),Te Ao Tawhitotells the great origin narrative of Mori history from 3000 BCAD 1830.