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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10562120384804 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1428 (12) |
| Category: |
Maritime: Civil / Merchant Shipping New Zealand History: Early Maori & Colonial |
| New / Used: | Used |
Description
EXPLORERS, WHALERS AND TATTOOED SAILORS
edited by Gordon and Sarah Ell
ISBN: 9781869790233
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Random House 2008
Size (mm): 140 w x 205 h x 30 d
Pages: 302
SKU: A5/2512/U234
ABOUT
This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit New Zealand and tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure.
Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, followed by missionaries, traders, whalers and sealers, regency bucks, gentlemen scientists and entrepreneurs keen to explore its possibilities. Told in their own words, these stories bring to life a young country yet to come under British rule.
Includes monochrome illustrations.
CONDITION
Immaculate with only light wear on dust jacket and marks on top page edges, damage on front end paper. Images depict all need to know detail.
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