While I'm at it: the page count is 192 pages, and the blurb is as follows:
Like NO BOOTS FOR MR MOEHAU, this book is set among the tough pastures and far-back hills of the Peninsula where Matarangi listens to the New Zealand Pacific. It is here that Mattie Dulivich, a Dalmatian farmer, at last reaches modest affluence after a lifetime's hard toil; and old Amo alone remembers to stand guard over the maori tribal lands. Into this peace come land speculators Goulstone Brock and Thomas Hunter, their aim to conquer and divide and build a boat marina and a pleasure dome. This is the story of their differing fates. It describes not only the power and the decency of a transplanted Dalmatia, but also what Amo's old Polynesian gods can do when they really get going; and comments in passing on the easy virtues of Lady Cassandra, an unassuming craft, but stately in her day.
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Source: scan from personal copy.
While I'm at it: the page count is 192 pages, and the blurb is as follows:
Like NO BOOTS FOR MR MOEHAU, this book is set among the tough pastures and far-back hills of the Peninsula where Matarangi listens to the New Zealand Pacific. It is here that Mattie Dulivich, a Dalmatian farmer, at last reaches modest affluence after a lifetime's hard toil; and old Amo alone remembers to stand guard over the maori tribal lands. Into this peace come land speculators Goulstone Brock and Thomas Hunter, their aim to conquer and divide and build a boat marina and a pleasure dome. This is the story of their differing fates. It describes not only the power and the decency of a transplanted Dalmatia, but also what Amo's old Polynesian gods can do when they really get going; and comments in passing on the easy virtues of Lady Cassandra, an unassuming craft, but stately in her day.