
Price: NZ$65.25
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
1/8" missing to cloth at tail of spine. Fading to dust-jacket. A 2/3" chip at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; viii, [ix-xii], 145 pages + plates + maps. Orange cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. Most of this book consists of an alphabetical listing of Maori place-names, with a short paragraph explaining the meaning and some historical details of that site. The illustrations include Worser Bay; Pencarrow Head (Te Rae-akiaki); Island Bay, showing Tapu-te-ranga islet; Karaka Bay, Miramar; a reproduction of the "earliest published detailed ethnological map of part of the Wellington City district (McLeod, 1907)".
Title: The Great Harbour of Tara - Traditional Maori Place-names and Sites of Wellington Harbour and Environs
Categories: Other,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Christchurch, Whitcombs and Tombs: 1959
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
Seller ID: 20989