Prodigious Birds
Subtitle: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521352093
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific archaeology; Moas; Prehistoric Anthropology; History - General History; Archaeology; Science/Mathematics; New Zealand; Australia & New Zealand - New Zealand; Social Science / Archaeology; Hunting; Hunting, Prehistoric; Maori (New Zealand people)
First sentence: The first Europeans to land in New Zealand, in 1769, came to determine whether the country coasted briefly by Tasman in 1642 was part of a great southern continent inhabited by people, plants and animals of appropriately rich diversity.