642pp with extensive bibliography and index. Internally clean and tight, light shelfwear to boards, a beautiful sound, square Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket that is lightly edgeworn. ~ "This book presents evidence from a comparative study of oral narratives to support the theory that the peoples of the Bashiic culture areas are not only related but share a common origin. These people are the Yami, who inhabit a small island off the southern coast of Taiwan, and the natives of the Batanes, the northern most province of the Philippines.