Jade River A History of the Mahurangi by R. H. Locker.

Jade River A History of the Mahurangi by R. H. Locker.

Publisher: Friends of the Mahurangi Incorporated, 2001. Second Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket, no inscriptions. Minor marks and bumping to boards, pages very good, minor marks to edges. Jacket has a little edge-wear, and fading to spine. 400 pages, illustrated.

"Ron Locker's knowledge of and affection for the Mahurangi River went back to the middle years of the twentieth century, nurtured by the beauty of the area -- some 40 kms north of Auckland, New Zealand -- and by his love of sailing. In this book he shares that knowledge and deepens it with the diligent research he undertook in the final years of his life. Not content with simply describing colonial life on the river, as previous histories have done, he traces its evolution from geologic time, then through the millennium of Maori occupation to the arrival of the European settlers in the mid-nineteenth century ."--Back cover.

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