Man Of The Mist - A Biography Of Elsdon Best
Craig, E. W. G.
From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 June 2002
Quantity: 1From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 June 2002
Quantity: 1About this Item
No signatures. Some bumping to ends of spine. Sticker on rear panel of dust wrapper obscuring portrait. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 247, [1 (blank)] pages + 32 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Green papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214mm x 135mm. "Elsdon Best is known today as New Zealand's first locally-born scholar of the Maori and of Maori ways. This book describes Best the man - traveller, adventurer, bushman, and devoted ethnologist. [. . .] On return to New Zealand, circumstance and preference brought him into close contact with the Maori, often in areas far removed from Pakeha settlement. Here he won Maori confidence and - realising the urgent need to record their tradition and culture before it was too late - he set himself the task, thereby making a contribution of incalculable value to this country." - from dust-jacket blurb. Seller Inventory # 9242
Bibliographic Details
Title: Man Of The Mist - A Biography Of Elsdon Best
Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed (1964), Wellington
Publication Date: 1964
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition.
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