Man Of The Mist A Biography Of Elsdon Best

By: Craig, E. W. G.

Price: NZ$43.20

Quantity: 1 available

Book Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

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 pages + plates. 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." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo

Title: Man Of The Mist A Biography Of Elsdon Best

Author Name: Craig, E. W. G.

Categories: Other,

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed: (1964)

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Seller ID: 9242

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