The Adventures of Vela

Download or read book The Adventures of Vela written by Albert Wendt and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today.