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. The book has some bumping on the top and bottom edges and spine, and the pages are browned and have some scattered foxing thoughout, particularly on the page edges and endpapers. The spine is quite faded but the binding is good. There is a substantial previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper and a much smaller one of the title page. No dustwrapper.

PRICE - $30

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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