The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
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Brock R.W. - Mihawhenua: The Adventures of a Party of Tourists Amongst a Tribe of Maoris Discovered in Western Otago
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Full title reads: "Mihawhenua: the adventures of a party of tourists amongst a tribe of Maoris discovered in western Otago, New Zealand, recorded by R. W. Brock; edited by R. H. Chapman.". R.W. Brock pseudonym for John Barr J. Wilkie, Dunedin, 1888. 197pp, small 8vo, brown pictorial wrappers, general wear. Johannes Andersen’s copy, bound into cloth covers, preserving the original wrappers. An entertaining hoax account of meeting Maori and Moa in back-country Otago. Bagnall 1063.
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