NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1975

AUTHOR - C.W.N. Ingram

PUBLICATION - A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ, 1977

CONDITION - Hardback fifth edition. The book has some very minor bumping on the top and bottom edges and spine, but the pages are quite clean throughout and the binding is good. There is a substantial printing fault in that pages 250/1, 254/5, 258/9 and 262/3 were unprinted - some photocopied pages have been carefully and tidily pasted onto the blank sheets by the previous owner, so the text is complete. No dustwrapper.

PRICE - $18

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, 1951, 1961 and 1972 editions.

ISBN 9780589010476

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