Prodigious Birds
Subtitle: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521543965
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific archaeology; Nature; Archaeology / Anthropology; Nature/Ecology; New Zealand; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; Birds & Birdwatching - General
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.