Moa Sightings [Three Volumes, complete set]

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 moas lingered on until a later date in some remote, isolated areas." "This set belongs in the library of every serious cryptozoology researcher." - from a review by Chad Arment in the online publication "BioFortean Review". [NB: No additional postage other than our standard fixed shipping charges quoted at the checkout will be required on this heavy set.] ; 4to; Signed by Author .