Amiria: The life story of a Maori woman

This is the story of Amiria’s life and marriage as told to Anne Salmond. Amiria was born on the East Coast at Tuparoa late 19th century and her story begins with her childhood spent both in her grandmother’s raupo hut and the magnificent Williams homestead Kaharau. It takes the reader through her schooldays, her taumau (arranged) marriage to Eruera Stirling, farming on ‘The Coast’ and latter days in Auckland, where the Stirlings lived as prominent elders until their deaths in 1983.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Imprint: Penguin Books NZ
Publication date: 08/03/2005