A selection of stories about the history of Kiwi writing, writers and books – one for each day of NZ Book Month.Ponga and Puhihuia'Surely the best of all the Maori stories', is how Margaret Orbell, then editor of the magazine Te Ao Hou, described the tale of the impetuous 17th-century lovers Ponga and Puhihuia. The story describes an illicit romance taking place in a world of desperate canoe voyages, flamboyant dances, cunning deception and hand-to-hand combat.
