Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life Vol 3 & 4 - Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships Under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey

Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with Indosuez NZ Ltd, Wellington, 1986. Extracts from the Journals Relating to the Visits to New Zealand in March 1793 and March 1824 of French Ships Recherche, Esperance and Coquille under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey.
Single volume in grey cloth with gilt titles on black labels on front and spine. In good condition. Minor staining to cloth. Contents tight and clean. No inscriptions or markings. 219pp. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.
This perspective is perhaps the closest that European scholarship can come to tribal accounts of the past, based on particular landscapes and particular successions of ancestors. And in one important way the early European reports complement tribal tradition, for they dwell on those physical aspects of life - houses, clothing, canoes, ornaments and weapons - that rarely if ever are described in the oral histories. - from the Foreword by Anne Salmond.