Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook -Alice Te Punga Somerville (2020)
In this short book Alice Te Punga Somerville applies her deep research skills and dark humour to creating a defiant, empowering response to Captain Cook’s global colonial legacy.
Publication details
A. Te Punga Somerville. (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2020.)
About the book
Read interviews with the author or purchase the book here.
This book is part of a series marking the publication of Books of Mana (Otago University Press, 2025). It builds on the project Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications and adds 30 titles to a selected list of 150 non-fiction books, led by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in collaboration with Royal Society Te Apārangi.