Highlighting one of Aotearoa's most significant heritage sites
The site has borne witness to more than 600 years of our often-turbulent history.
A new book 'The Spirit of a Place' traces this legacy starting with the arrival of the first Polynesian voyaging canoes, the arrival of Pakeha, to the complex interactions that followed.
Author Sarah Ell joins Jesse in studio.
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