Product Description: A details guide to Maori myths and legends, religious beliefs, folklore and history. More than 380 entires, arranged alphabetically, reveal the subtlety and complexity of the traditional Maori view of the world.

Product Description: Sixty traditional Maori songs of Tuhoe sung by Kino Hughes are presented in this book and CD collection. The text of each song is given in both English and Maori along with a musical transcription. Kino Hughes was an outstanding singer, orator, and respected Kaumatua who, determined to preserve for future generations all the songs he knew, asked these authors to compile this magnificent record...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is a new edition of the classic study of Maori songs first published in 1975. Including both text with translation and music, it presents fifty songs characteristic of the most common types. Winner of the inaugural New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction, the book continues to be of great interest to those involved in music, Maori poetry, and Maori traditions.