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Hardback 9781991158949
PDF 9781991158956
16 pages
210mm x 275mm
Playing With Fire
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Fire is one of the most precious elements we know. You can cook with it. You can dry things with it. You can even sit around it and tell stories like this one. But how did fire get to Samoa? Find out in Playing With Fire – a Samoan legend retold by David Riley and translated into Samoan by Rasela Lafaele Uili.
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