Otago Harbour - Currents of Controversy

Otago Harbour Board, 1985. Hard back with DW in good order. Fading to spine of Jacket.
This is an independent, critical history of the Port of Otago by well known historian Gavin McLean. It is a highly readable account of a beautiful harbour and its often romanatic past. In these pages will be found bustling wharves, engineering fiascos, shipwrecks, strikes, a lightship without a light and even a pirate ship. Additional chapters look at the vanished ferry services, ship builders and commercial fishermen as well as the thousands who have made the harbour their playground. 200 specially commissioned maps and plans, colour plates and black and white photographs bring this harbour alive.