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Wangka: Austronesian Canoe Origins.
by DORAN, Edwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, (1981). First Edition, Review Copy with slip laid-in. Quarto (10.25" x 9"), 111 pages, illustrations throughout including drawings, maps, tables, charts, & photographs. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Covers lightly spotted & soiled, modest foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good in soiled dust jacked with trace edge wear & wrinkling (mostly at the rear panel), about Very Good.
"Were the Austronesians hapless travelers on fragile craft, drifted at the mercy of the waves to the far-flung islands of the Pacific? Or were they intrepid seafarers whose exploratory voyages covered much of the great ocean on seaworthy canoes capable of being sailed against the wind? This book addresses these questions in one of the most thorough discussions of Austronesian sailing canoes ever attempted…" Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1485
- Title
- Wangka: Austronesian Canoe Origins.
- Author
- DORAN, Edwin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Place of Publication
- College Station, Texas
- Date Published
- (1981)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Canoes, canoeing, Pacific Islands, Austronesian, Navigation, Maritime, Nautical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime, Nautical; Pacific Islands;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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