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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo. xi, 257pp, 30 tables, 58 figures, glossary, references, index. There are a few small spots on the page edges. Or cl boards in dust-jacket which is discoloured on the blind side and slightly wrinkled in places. The study shows that legends from an area of almost 100, 000 sq km, and including more than 30 language groups, have survived as essentially accurate accounts of a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on Long Island for about 300 years.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition, 1982. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 257 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, soiling and some edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Textual graphs, maps & tables. An ink mark to bottom page-edge, VG, in a rubbed dustwrapper., dustwrapper. xi, 257 pp, 24x15cm, Contents: Tephra Identification & Characterisation; Chemical Fingerprinting & Distribution of Tibito & Olgaboli Tephras; Potential Sources of Tibito & Olgaboli Tephras; Long Island as the Tephra Source; Some Theoretical Considerations; The Time of Darkness Legends; Tibito Tephra and the Legends; Physical Characteristics of the Tephra Fall According to the Legends; The Effects of the Tephra Fall according to the Legends; Issues Arising from an Analysis of the Legends; The Legends & Reality: The Physical Characteristics of the Tephra Fall; The Legends & Reality: The Effects of the Tephra Fall; Dating the Legend & the Eruption; Some Conclusions & Some Questions; Appendix: Sample Descriptions & Analytical Results; Analysis of Factors Influencing the Spread of Values in Samples Field-Identified as Olgaboli Tephra; The Long Island Legends; Questionnaire distributed in 1976-77.
