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Description
LOG OF THE HUIA
by Clifford W. Hawkins
DESCRIPTION
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Leader Press 1947, 2nd edition 1951
Size (mm): 140 w x 215 d x 12 d
Pages: 85
SKU: A5/2304/0365/U409
ABOUT
New edition with photographs and an account of her loss.
The Huia was a New Zealand topsail schooner launched at Aratapu, Northland in 1894 that plied the Tasman and the Pacific for over 50 years. She sailed as a cargo carrier until 1951, around the shores of New Zealand, across the Tasman and the Pacific. She ended her days wrecked on Komekame Reef, near Noumea.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, includes maps and several fold out cutaway line drawings.
Includes separate copy of portrait and newspaper cutting.
CONDITION
Excellent with only wear/repairs to dust jacket, name on title page, pages otherwise near new, binding tight. Images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce
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