Moa Sightings. Volume One.
by Spittle, Bruce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0473153564
- ISBN 13
- 9780473153564
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Dunedin: Paua Press. New in New dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0473153564 . Volume One only of three volumes. Pictorial papered boards, with dust wrappers. Page dimensions: 240 x 169mm. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Contents of this volume: What this book is about; Anon; John Boultbee; Burr Osborn; Paatu; John Watts-Russell; Patrick Caples; Arthur Thomson; Anon (Party of natives that spoke to George Grey); Kawana Paipai; James Cameron; Robert and Elizabeth Murrell; Robert Aitkin; Mr McDonald; Charles Port; J Turnbull Thomson; Anon (cousin of Nathaniel Bates); Anon (writer of letter to Geoffrey Orbell); Wattie Norman; Jules Berg; Cap. Alabaster; Alice MacKenzie; Daniel MacKenzie; Malcolm and Hugh MacKenzie; Robert Clark; George Pauley; Two Americans; Ebenezer Jessop and Thomas Cropp; Lieutenant Impey, Capt. Dashwood, and Captain Mitchell; Anonymous Prospectors. "It is a tantalizing possbility: that in some remote and inaccesible area of New Zealand moa had survived human depredation, living on into the nineteenth and perhaps even the twentieth century." - from the foreword by Dennis Dutton. "[A] number of moa sighting claims have been made since 1769 and the author offers for consideration a staggered survival model in which moas lingered on until a later date in some remote, isolated areas." ; 4to .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10380
- Title
- Moa Sightings. Volume One.
- Author
- Spittle, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0473153564
- ISBN 13
- 9780473153564
- Publisher
- Paua Press
- Place of Publication
- Dunedin
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 0473153564, Cryptozoology
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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