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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…
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- Title Moa Sightings, volume 1
- Author Bruce Spittle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Paua Press, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9780473153564
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Dunedin: Paua Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0473153564 . Each volume signed by the author on the title page. Three volumes. Pictorial papered boards, with dust wrappers. Page dimensions: 240 x 169mm. A comprehensive study of moa sightings in New Zealand, from the pre-European period up until the alleged sighting by Paddy Freaney and companions of a moa in the Arthurs Pass area in 1993. Includes chapters on John Boultbee; Patrick Caples; J Turnbull Thomson; Jules Berg; Alice Mackenzie of Martins Bay; James Hector; and Geoffrey Orbell. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. "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…
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