Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck). 1954. VERY SCARCE First New Zealand Edition
Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck).
Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., 1954. VERY SCARCE First New Zealand Edition, first printing.
Good hardback with jacket. Binding firm, no inscriptions, slight lean to spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges, scattered foxing throughout. Jacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with loss to spine and bottom edge. 339 pages, illustrated.
This important publication was the first Maori Western scholarly account of the discovery and settlement of Polynesia in ancient times by seafarers so expert in navigation that Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck) described them as Vikings of the sunrise.
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