Journalist Hugh Carrington wrote a history of Ngai Tahu in the 1930s, drawing on the knowledge of Oaro elder Hariata Beaton-Morel and earlier scholars. This text has been framed and edited by contemporary Ngai Tahu scholars Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson, who draw on a wide range of sources including tribal traditions, archaeology and recent historical writing. Illustrations iinclude maps, photographs, taonga and early European paintings.