The Adventures of Kimble Bent : A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush
by Cowan, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Christchurch: Capper Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1975). Hardcover. Heavy wear and rubbing to lower margins and edges of boards. Heavy staining to reverse side of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. ; 1975 Capper Press facsimile reprint of the original 1911 edition. xxi, [1], 336, [2 (blank)] pages. 15 illustrations + 1 map within the pagination. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 134mm. Contents: The Deserter; Kimble Bent, Sailor and Soldier; The Camp of the Hauhaus; In the Otapawa Stockade; Te Ua, Priest and Prophet; The Storming of Otapawa; Bush Life with the Hauhaus; The Hauhau Council-Town; A Forest Adventure; The War-Chief and his Gods; "The Beak-of-the-Bird"; The Attack on Turuturu-Mokai Redoubt; The Killing of Kane; Adventures at Te Ngutu-O-Te-Manu; A Battle in the Forest; and the Death of Von Tempsky; The Cannibales of the Bush; Skirmishing and Fort-Building; The Fight at Moturoa Stockade; The Tauranga-Ika Stockade; A Scouting Adventure; The Fall of Tauranga-Ika; The Forest-Foragers; A Battle in the Fog; The Head-Hunters; The Land of Refuge; Bush Life on the Patea; Hiroki: The Story of a Fugitive; Out of Exile. Illustrations: Sketch Map of Taranaki; Mount Egmont, Taranaki; A Taranaki Frontier Fort; Patara, A Hauhau Prophet; A British Column on the March; The Scout; The Ambuscade; Tutange Waionui, A Hauhau Warrior; Major Von Tempsky; Major Von Tempsky; Major Kemp (Kepa Te Rangihiwinui) ; The Fight at Moturoa; A Hauhau Scout; A Constabulary Officer in Bush-Fighting Costume; Kimble Bent, the Pakeha-Maori. [Reference: c.f Bagnall C1590 for first edition: "The adventures of a deserter from the British troops during the Taranaki War."] .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25795
- Title
- The Adventures of Kimble Bent : A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush
- Author
- Cowan, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Capper Press
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- (1975)
- Keywords
- Maori Pakeha History New Zealand Aotearoa Biograph
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Dunedin, New Zealand
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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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