Hard by the Cloud House

Peter Walker

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Massey University Press
11 April 2024

Australasian & Pacific history; History: earliest times to present day; Folklore, myths & legends; Monsters & legendary beings

An eagle, and its place in our history. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Southern Alps. Was it the same creature as The Rukh of Arabic legends? And, if so, was that evidence that in the twelfth century Arabic and Chinese explorers ventured as far as the South Pacific, saw Pouakai, and traded with Maori?

From Kai Tahu's fatal encounter with colonisation to the glories of tenth century Baghdad and ceremonies at the great Tahitian marae Taputapuatea, Hard by the Cloud House is a heady, powerful and seductive mix of history, memoir, science and myth, crafted by an esteemed writer. Creative non-fiction at its best.

By: Peter Walker
Imprint: Massey University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781991016713
ISBN 10: 1991016719
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Part I To Honeycomb Hill 9 Part II In Canterbury 75 Part III Meadows of Gold 149 Notes 277 About the author 285 Acknowledgements 286

Peter Walker grew up in Christchurch and began his writing career as a journalist in Wellington and then Sydney. He moved to London in 1986 and joined The Independent and later the Independent on Sunday where he was Foreign Editor. He also wrote for the Literary Review, the Financial Times books pages and Granta. He is the author of the historical memoir The Fox Boy (Bloomsbury, 2001), set in Taranaki, and his first novel was The Courier's Tale (Bloomsbury, 2010), set in Italy and the court of Henry VIII.

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Hard by the Cloud House

Peter Walker

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