NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960

AUTHOR - C.W.N. Ingram

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

CONDITION - Hardback third edition. The book has some bumping on the top and bottom edges, and the page edges are lightly foxed. The internal pages are clean though, other than a previous owner's name stamped on the front endpaper and the binding is good. Dustwrapper is in fair condition with some rubbing and small (1cm) chips at top and bottom of spine and corners.

PRICE - $36

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.

ISBN 9780589007157 ISBN for 1795-1970 1974 4th edition

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