February 6th is Waitangi Day, the Kiwi holiday celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and the birth of modern New Zealand. To celebrate, the Kindle ebook of my travel memoir Ka Mate: Travels in New Zealand will be free from midnight on February 5th through February 7th (all times are Pacific Time). If you haven't already read it, now's the chance to get your hands on a copy gratis. If you have read it... well, tell everyone you know. Everybody likes FREE stuff, remember?
Just visit Amazon to 'buy' the ebook, and you'll find that they're asking for exactly none of your hard-earned cash in exchange. Remember that this giveaway is only running for three days, however - so do it NOW.
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Here's a passage from Ka Mate about the Treaty House at Waitangi:
The Treaty itself wasn’t signed in the house, this formality having taken place on the lawns between the building and the sea. A marquee was erected there from spare spars and sails that Hobson had brought with him on board the HMS Herald, and as I walked across the close-cropped grass I tried to imagine the makeshift construction that had stood there over a hundred and fifty years ago, billowing in the sea winds. A tall and impressive flagstaff marked the point on the lawn where the historic event took place, but the area was now populated by several clusters of tourists, carefully unpacking sandwiches from their backpacks. In the end the leap proved too much for my imagination, and I had to remain content with the artist’s impression of the signing that hung in the Treaty House. Today’s picnickers were far removed from the gathering of proud Maori chiefs that once occupied these lawns.Ka Mate: Travels in New Zealand is available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook from Amazon and many other outlets. Click here for Ka Mate availability.
(The photo is from the commemorative wharenui at Waitangi. Credit: Dan Coxon)
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