Maori, Alan Dean Foster
Maori, Alan Dean Foster
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Maori
A Novel

Author: Alan Dean Foster

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Unabridged: 19 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2019


Synopsis

A sweeping historical novel set in nineteenth-century New Zealand from the New York Times bestselling author.

The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, leaving his young bride and infant child behind in England. In the sordid and dangerous South Pacific port of Kororareka, on the sprawling island the native Maori call "the Land of the Long White Cloud," Coffin builds a successful new life as a merchant. He gains an unwavering respect for the aboriginal people and their culture, and finds comfort in the arms of his fiery Irish mistress, Mary.

But the unexpected arrival of a China-bound clipper bearing his wife, Holly, and son, Christopher, throws Coffin's world into turmoil—compounded by the ever-increasing tension between the Maori tribes and the mistrusted "pakehas" who are plundering their land. As the years of a volatile nineteenth century progress, the indomitable family of the stalwart adventurer the Maori have named "Iron Hair" will struggle, sacrifice, and endure through war, chaos, catastrophe, and change.

About Alan Dean Foster

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is also the author of numerous nonfiction articles, as well as novelizations of many films, including Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction book to ever do so. Alan lives with his wife in Prescott, Arizona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by George on February 06, 2017

ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING. “The Maoris are as adept at lying, […] as they are at making war.” (Kindle Locations 1049-1050) Although never quite rising to the level of epic storytelling of a Follett, a Michener, a Clavell, or a Rutherfurd novel; Alan Dean Foster’s historical novel, Maori, is noneth......more

Goodreads review by Ken on September 04, 2021

Maori, Alan Dean Foster, rtc......more

Goodreads review by Infosifter on August 03, 2021

2.5 stars Misleading title, unlikable main character, needless melodrama -- one character falls into a coma when they receive some bad news......more

Goodreads review by Joy on March 05, 2021

I'm a bit mystified as to why this book is called "Maori" when it should have been called something like "How New Zealand Was Settled by the White Man." I think that would have been much more descriptive of the novel, which around one white man and his white wife, Irish "fallen woman," and Maori ser......more

Goodreads review by Jean St. Pierre on November 25, 2017

Ok Read The first half, while informative, droned on regarding the war. The time sequences were awkward. The protagonist was unlikable. For these reasons I did not enjoy this book as I might have. The one thing it does do is develope a respect for the Maori, which was the intent.......more