“Rangatira (The High Born” by Norman B Tindale and Harold A Lindsay and illustrated by Douglas F Maxted”.

The authors, two Australian anthropologists, have constructed a vivid, fascinating story of early Maori as they settled in the Aotearoa

“A Polynesian Saga by Norman B. Tindale and Harold A. Lindsay. Illustrated by Douglas F. Maxted. The Island had become too small for its people. Soon there would not be enough breadfruit and bananas to go around. So when the wind brought a lone old mariner, Rehua, canoe-chief, from a far place to their shores, the Maori saw him as an Answer. Under his wise direction, the Islanders carved from a great tree a sea-worthy canoe for thirty of their best people - four youngsters, Maui and Hauka, and the girls Kura and Ngaio, among them. With coconuts, seedling plants, and two mother dogs ready to litter, the Rangatira - the high-born - began their perilous journey into the unknown in search of a new home”.

Hard covered, 208 page book published by A H & A W Reed. It is a 1959 first edition.

No dust jacket, and fading to the covers. A previous owners name and address written inside the front cover with an illustration. Pages sound and in good condition,