The Correspondence of Julius Haast and James Hector, 1862-1887
- ISBN-10
- 1877480231
- ISBN-13
- 9781877480232
- Category
- Geologists
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Authors
- Rowan Burns, Simon Nathan, Julius von Haast
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