Chatham Exiles : Yesterday And To-Day At The Chatham Islands Simpson, Frank A. Nautical

A little bruising to tail of spine. Ex libris bookplate, Frank O'Leary. 6mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. 25mm tear to corner of dust-jacket. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover. ; 182 pages + frontispiece + 24 illustrations on 7 plate leaves. Maps on endpapers. Brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 134mm. New Zealand regional history, Chatham Islands. "Chatham Exiles is the first popular historical sketch of the Chatham Islands, a lonely and isolated Pacific group some 400 miles east of New Zealand. Before peace came to the Chathams, the islands saw a full measure of the lawlessness of nineteenth century seafarers. There are chapters dealing with the massacre of the crew of the 'Jean Bart', with the dramatic escape from captivity of the prophet-warrior Te Kooti, and with the trying ordeals of early settlers and missionaries to the islands. The unhappy tale of shipwrecks from earliest days up to the present time is told. The Chatham Islands were also the scene of the extinction of the Moriori people. Conquered by fugitive Maori warrriors they declined steadily in number until, in 1933, their last full-blooded representative passed away." - from dust-jacket blurb.