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Jeff Evans

Jeff Evans is a non-fiction writer living in Auckland. The author of seven books relating to Māori and Polynesian culture, he has written extensively about both waka and voyaging, including Reawakened – Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (2021), Ngā Waka o Neherā: The First Voyaging Canoes (1997), and The Discovery of Aotearoa (1998). A graduate of the University of Auckland Master of Creative Writing program, he was a finalist in the General Non-Fiction category of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.