NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960

AUTHORS - C.W.N. Ingram and P.O. Wheatley

PUBLICATION - A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ, 1961

CONDITION - Hardback third edition. Good second hand. Binding quite tight. Edges age discoloured throughout with very minor foxing, especially on page block edges. Large previous owner's inscription on front endpaper along with tape stain and tear abrasion from previous dustwrapper taping. Dustwrapper heavily rubbed down edges and bumped and chipped on top and bottom of spine.

PRICE - $48

DESCRIPTION - New Zealand Shipwrecks is essentially a work of reference, recording a total of 1750 shipping casualties over a period of 165 years. It is eminently readable and contains many epic accounts of disasters in which courage, endurance and self-sacrifice were particularly evident. Lengthy reports are given of wrecks of unusual consequence or drama such as the Orpheus, Elingamite, Manuka, Wairarapa, Wiltshire, Niagara and Wanganella, but the book also gives the essential details of every known shipping loss, down to the smallest schooners and commercial fishing vessels. The standard work on New Zealand shipwrecks, here revised and enlarged from the 1936 and 1951 editions.

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