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THE ORPHEUS DISASTER

Author: Thayer Fairburn

Original price was: $60.00.Current price is: $40.00.

  • Paperback
  • 210mm x 219mm
  • 244 pages
  • 1.06kg
  • Black & white photographs

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This book, originally published in 1987, was the first full and true account of New Zealand’s greatest sea disaster. The book was the lifelong work of Thayer Fairburn. It is a monumental work in any sense of the term. He carefully and painstakingly researched every aspect of the wreck, following leads around the world through libraries and survivors’ records. The journey was long, over sixty years of research and collation, resulting in a book with a wonderful array of maps, charts, illustrations and photographs never before seen in publication. The Orpheus Disaster is a tribute to a sea historian and his relentless search for the total picture that doomed the grand vessel that fateful day in 1863 on a massive sandbank just outside Auckland’s Manukau Harbour.

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