{"product_id":"9781623092139","title":"Behold the Moon: The European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770-1848","description":"Behold the Moon describes the European history of the Dunedin district (New Zealand) before the arrival of the Scottish settlers in 1848.It details a forgotten war between Maori and Pakeha sparked by a Maori chief's theft of a red shirt and a sealer's excessive revenge. It describes William Tucker's residence at Whareakeake and his fostering of an export trade in hei-tiki, the rise and decline of sealing and flax trading before permanent European occupation was started in 1831 by the Weller brothers, whalers and New Zealand-wide traders. There is an impression that the Scots who came in 1848 entered an empty territory and bought this excellent real estate from a few tattooed tribesman who inexplicably wished to give up their ancestral land. By contrast the Creed manuscript by a missionary reports fatal encounters from a spiraling feud between Maori and Pakeha in what is now the Dunedin district.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134589714672,"sku":"9781623092139","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623092139_p0.jpg?v=1763859973","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623092139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}