STEWART ISLAND'S KAIPIPI SHIPYARD AND THE ROSS SEA WHALERS

AUTHOR - J.P.C. Watt

PUBLICATION - J.P.C. Watt, Havelock North, NZ, 1989

CONDITION - Hardback first edition, signed by author. The book has the slightest of browning on the top page edges from dust, but the pages including endpapers inside are clean and bright, and the binding is very good. Dustwrapper is in as new condition and has been wrapped in book plastic for protection. Dustwrapper as new

PRICE - $350

DESCRIPTION - The definitive work on the Ross Sea Whaling Company's nine expeditions from 1924-1933 and the base and shipyards they used at Kaipipi on Stewart Island, New Zealand. The result is a classic study in industrial archaeology, painstakingly researched, and including a thorough description of the shipyard at its zenith and what remains of it today. This attractively laid-out book will appeal to anyone interested in modern whaling history.

ISBN 9780959771913

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