Author Talk | Peter Dowling and Takerei Norton

Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to a special author talk with Peter Dowling and Takerei Norton.

Peter Dowling is the publisher of Oratia Books, which he launched in 2009 after being publishing manager of Reed Publishing (NZ) and chief editor of Kozo System (Tokyo). Over many year he has updated and extended A.W. Reed’s research into place names in books including The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names (2002), Place Names of New Zealand (2010) and Māori Place Names (2017).

Takerei Norton (Ngāi Tahu) is co-manager of the Ngāi Tahu Archive. His field of interest is the collation, storage and use of traditional Māori knowledge. Since 2005 Takerei has managed Kā Huru Manu, the Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Project. He also managed the development of Kareao, the online archive database that provides unprecedented access to the Ngāi Tahu Archive.

This author talk will feature discussion on Peter’s latest book New Zealand Place Names: Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown and Takerei’s work on Kā Huru Manu.

All welcome, refreshments provided. Free event. Please send in your RSVP.