Difference between revisions of "Eyles Jim"
m |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Jim Eyles == | == Jim Eyles == | ||
[[Image:Wairaubarmoahunterbook.jpg|300px|right]] | [[Image:Wairaubarmoahunterbook.jpg|300px|right]] | ||
| + | '''See his posthumous autobiography: '''Wairau Bar moa hunter, The Jim Eyles story''', 2007, River Press.''' | ||
Blurb from [http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/index.php?option=results&search_by=isbn&search_text=0958277907&Fnew_search=1&pagestyle=single&nsBookshop_Session=ccc18db2377c42ea9067f085aa23612e Page and Blackmore Website]: | Blurb from [http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/index.php?option=results&search_by=isbn&search_text=0958277907&Fnew_search=1&pagestyle=single&nsBookshop_Session=ccc18db2377c42ea9067f085aa23612e Page and Blackmore Website]: | ||
''The discovery of the ancient Moa-hunter burial sites at Wairau Bar in 1939 provided a new benchmark for archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists seeking to understand whose were the first footprints on New Zealand shores.This is the autobiography of the man who found those burial sites as a 13 year old boy and spent the rest of his life exploring and discovering what lies under the soil.Descended from Tory Channel whaler Jimmy Jackson, Jim Eyles was brought up at Wairau Bar. He worked for the Canterbury Museum and was director of the Nelson Museum and the West Coast Museum.'' | ''The discovery of the ancient Moa-hunter burial sites at Wairau Bar in 1939 provided a new benchmark for archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists seeking to understand whose were the first footprints on New Zealand shores.This is the autobiography of the man who found those burial sites as a 13 year old boy and spent the rest of his life exploring and discovering what lies under the soil.Descended from Tory Channel whaler Jimmy Jackson, Jim Eyles was brought up at Wairau Bar. He worked for the Canterbury Museum and was director of the Nelson Museum and the West Coast Museum.'' | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
Revision as of 16:52, 28 December 2007
Jim Eyles
See his posthumous autobiography: Wairau Bar moa hunter, The Jim Eyles story, 2007, River Press.
Blurb from Page and Blackmore Website:
The discovery of the ancient Moa-hunter burial sites at Wairau Bar in 1939 provided a new benchmark for archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists seeking to understand whose were the first footprints on New Zealand shores.This is the autobiography of the man who found those burial sites as a 13 year old boy and spent the rest of his life exploring and discovering what lies under the soil.Descended from Tory Channel whaler Jimmy Jackson, Jim Eyles was brought up at Wairau Bar. He worked for the Canterbury Museum and was director of the Nelson Museum and the West Coast Museum.
