RUA AND THE MAORI MILLENNIUM BY PETER WEBSTER

Publisher Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, 1979

328 PAGES

EXCELLENT CONDITION!! – BEEN IN STORAGE – NO MARKINGS ETC

HARD COVER WITH DUST JACKET WHICH IS COVERED BY THICK CLEAR PLASTIC

NICE GIFT IDEA

LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED IMAGES !!

GREAT RESOURCE MATERIAL FOR RESEARCH AND WHAKAPAPA ….

THE FIRST SERIOUS, COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RUA KENANA, AND THE MILLENARIAN MOVEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH HIS NAME.

AS A PROPHET HE LED HIS FOLLOWERS TO A NEW PROMISED LAND AT MAUNGAPOHATU.

IN 1916 HE WAS THE TARGET OF AN ARMED POLICE RAID THAT LED TO THE LONGEST TRIAL IN NEW ZEALAND'S HISTORY.

"In the heart of the Urewera ranges in the North Island of New Zealand, there is a great clearing in the forest, and scattered over it the empty houses of a departed people ... these are remains of the once thriving Maori settlement of Maungapohatu.

Here, at the beginning of this century, the prophet Rua Kenana led his people to found a New Jerusalem in the wildnerness.

In the shadow of a sacred mountain, over a thousand of Rua's followers sought to escape the European settlers and live free from the domination of an alien race."-