Description: Honolulu: The Island Heritage Press. 1976.Limited Edition, 4to, pp. 93, [2], 24cm. Green faux leather with decorative gilt tooling on the front and spine. Some bumps and small spots of wear, binding in tact. All edges in gilt. Some foxing on the prelims. Inside text and images are clean. This copy is 306/5000 as shown on the preliminary parchment leaf which is also blind stamped with the Hawaii royal seal. SIGNED by Mr. Kane. "Polynesia began with the canoe--a seaworthy vessel carved from trees with stone tools, assembled vessel carved from trees with stone tools, assembled with lashings of fiber, and rigged with sails of plaited leaves. Imagine if you can, a people without metal tools or fastenings setting out to build ships, to develop a system of navigation without metal instruments without charts, without writing. Such men and women embraced as their destiny the exploration of Earth's largest ocean. Before European open-ocean exploration began, they and their descendants had discovered every habitable island within an area of ocean greater than the size of North and South America combined--a neolithic feat which must rank forever as one of Man's greatest achievements." Mr. Kane's artwork is mystical, vivid and bright.
Price: 45 USD
Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Honolulu
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Island Heritage Press
Subject: Hawaii History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1976
Series: Hawaiian Bicentennial Library
Language: English
Illustrator: Herb Kawainui Kane
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Author: Herb Kawainui Kane
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Hawaii HIstory
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
