SHIPS AND SAILORMEN
A Collection of Pen Portraits of Some Australasian Shipmasters
and Others Whose Lives Have Been Dedicated to the Sea

AUTHOR - Allan A. Kirk

PUBLICATION - A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ, 1964

CONDITION - Hardback first edition. The book has only the slightest of rubbing and bumping on the top and bottom edges and spine, but the pages are clean and bright, and the binding is very good. There is a little faint foxing/browning on the page edging and the endpapers. Dustwrapper is in good condition with only a little rubbing and bumping.

PRICE - $23

DESCRIPTION - The author has selected a representative group of men who have dedicated their lives to ships and the sea and given us a lively and accurate account of their adventures in peace and war. The remarkable and romantic history of New Zealand's oldest shipping company, from the formative period of the 1860s right through to the present day, when six fine modern motor vessels of the Anchor Line are playing an important part in the coastal transportation services of their country. Biographies of Australasian Shipmasters including Captain Smith and Captain Young of the 'Monowai' and Captain Irwin of the 'Rangitira' and the 'Wahine'

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