Anne Salmond
Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor in Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and the author of six award-winning books on Maori life and early contacts between Europeans and islanders in Polynesia. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Dame Commander of the British Empire, chair of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and recipient of the Prime Minister‚s Award for Literary Achievement. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas, won a Montana New Zealand Book Award in 2002, and her latest book is Aphrodite‚s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti.
