Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand. FIRST EDITION HARDBACK
Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand by Atholl Anderson.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, First Edition.
SCARCE IN HARDBACK.
Very good hardback with jacket, binding firm, some minor rubbing and bumping, no owner inscriptions, foxing to first few pages and edges otherwise excellent, minor marks.
Jacket has some light edge/shelf-wear with fading to spine area.
238 pages, illustrated.
Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.
ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.
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