The Adventures of Kimble Bent; A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush James 18701943 Cowan 9781360130538 Books
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The Adventures of Kimble Bent; A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush James 18701943 Cowan 9781360130538 Books
The publisher must have read the previous reviewer's observations, my digital version was in excellent format for kindle and all the photos and illustrations were clear and sharp. The only thing that was lacking was the chapters and table of contents were not linked. There are lots of James Cowan authors and I believe the book description listed the wrong one. The author of this memoir is the New Zealander James Cowan. He wrote a lot of books about the New Zealand Wars and the Maori around the beginning to the mid 1900s. He is much better known in New Zealand than in the US.The book description that Amazon has provided does a super job of laying out what the book is and some of the background that got Kimble Bent to the Maori. The cool picture on the front of the book is not Bent but a well know Maori HauHau fighter whose story is described in the book. While the book centers on Bent, Cowan actually interviewed many Maori who fought on both sides of the war so you get a pretty full picture of how a tribe at war functioned. Cowan does a great job of expressing the 'feel' of battle as well as the tribal politics that determined whether there would be any fighting. Of particular interest is the fact that Bent was witness to how a gunfighter pa (fort) was built from the start and exactly how the Maori designed the walls and the insides to withstand artillery. It has been noted in the past that the Maori were so innovative in their ideas of modern defense, particularly in the idea of trench warfare, that the British took their lessons to WWI and changed how that war was fought. One of the vivid scenes is the construction of a pa and on the front a giant wood figure with moving arms and legs. When battle started the figure's arms and legs were made to move by ropes, imitating a great haka dance, intimidating the enemy as they advanced. Bent was also witness to the grizzlier side of Maori warfare, the afterbattle cannibal victory feast is described in detail and how severed enemy heads were smoked and prepared as war trophies ( a Maori specialty). While Bent was among the HauHau fighters for years, he was never allowed weapons and was constantly on the lookout for possible assassins. But strangely he got married into several different tribes during his stay. He was sort of a slave, sort of a armorer, sort of a tribe member, sort of a confidant to the tribal chiefs, and in the end really a free man. A very different sort of book and a different angle on the Maori of old.
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The Adventures of Kimble Bent; A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush James 18701943 Cowan 9781360130538 Books Reviews
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It is obviously a photocopy version and often the words are hard to read because the letters are faint; some of the illustrations are totally useless as the copy shows no details. But the story is gripping.
The publisher must have read the previous reviewer's observations, my digital version was in excellent format for kindle and all the photos and illustrations were clear and sharp. The only thing that was lacking was the chapters and table of contents were not linked. There are lots of James Cowan authors and I believe the book description listed the wrong one. The author of this memoir is the New Zealander James Cowan. He wrote a lot of books about the New Zealand Wars and the Maori around the beginning to the mid 1900s. He is much better known in New Zealand than in the US.
The book description that has provided does a super job of laying out what the book is and some of the background that got Kimble Bent to the Maori. The cool picture on the front of the book is not Bent but a well know Maori HauHau fighter whose story is described in the book. While the book centers on Bent, Cowan actually interviewed many Maori who fought on both sides of the war so you get a pretty full picture of how a tribe at war functioned. Cowan does a great job of expressing the 'feel' of battle as well as the tribal politics that determined whether there would be any fighting. Of particular interest is the fact that Bent was witness to how a gunfighter pa (fort) was built from the start and exactly how the Maori designed the walls and the insides to withstand artillery. It has been noted in the past that the Maori were so innovative in their ideas of modern defense, particularly in the idea of trench warfare, that the British took their lessons to WWI and changed how that war was fought. One of the vivid scenes is the construction of a pa and on the front a giant wood figure with moving arms and legs. When battle started the figure's arms and legs were made to move by ropes, imitating a great haka dance, intimidating the enemy as they advanced. Bent was also witness to the grizzlier side of Maori warfare, the afterbattle cannibal victory feast is described in detail and how severed enemy heads were smoked and prepared as war trophies ( a Maori specialty). While Bent was among the HauHau fighters for years, he was never allowed weapons and was constantly on the lookout for possible assassins. But strangely he got married into several different tribes during his stay. He was sort of a slave, sort of a armorer, sort of a tribe member, sort of a confidant to the tribal chiefs, and in the end really a free man. A very different sort of book and a different angle on the Maori of old.
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