Description
New Zealand’s early trade and communications depended on its coastal shipping and on a host of small ports, many of them now forgotten. Drawing on his wide experience of New Zealand waters, the author has carefully and painstakingly reconstructed the history of the hopes, struggles and sacrifices made by so many local communities to develop a viable harbour and, in many cases, a grandiose “overseas port”.
This is the first comprehensive and detailed account of New Zealand’s many little ports of today and of yesterday, and represents an invaluable contribution to the understanding of our history.
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