Little doomsdays /
"It's said - in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse - that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngαi Tahu hapk in Murihiku created what has come to be known as the Ark...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Massey University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | KMrero series ;
bk. 5. |
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| Summary: | "It's said - in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse - that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngαi Tahu hapk in Murihiku created what has come to be known as the Ark of Arks. It's said that this project aimed to catalogue all known arks from the last five millennia. It was a failed attempt to capture previous civilisations' failed attempts to preserve whatever was valuable to them: waka huia, time capsules, caches, burial ships, seed banks"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 95 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781991016256 1991016255 |